Look up: shilling

1. Shilling
   Ancient Measurement Terms: Measure of money used for accounting purposes and equal to 12 old pennies. Until modern times, there was no actual coin. Small silvery coin. (Now replaced by 5 new pence.)
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2. shilling
   [n] - an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
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3. Shilling
   12 pence. Bob. Small silvery coin. Replaced by the 5 new pence coin. By coincidence, the Anglo-Saxon scilling had also been worth 5 silver pennies.
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4. Shilling
   To cheat at an auction by bidding falsely to inflate prices.
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5. Shilling
   (Ancient Money Terms:) Originally, not an actual coin, but a measure of money used for accounting purposes: The amount of silver equivalent to 12 silver pennies. (This varied at times because the amount of silver in pennies varied.)
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6. Shilling
   Pre-decimal currency equal to 12 pennies and equivalent to 5p today.
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7. shilling
   English coin worth 12 pennies (there were 20 shillings to one pound), first minted under Henry VII. Although the denomination of a shilling was abolished with...
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8. shilling
   A British coin of ancient origin, but since its revival in 1550, a silver piece with a face value of 12 old pence, and after decimalisation replaced by the 5p piece. Shilling is abbreviated to ‘s`.
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9. Shilling
   Shil'ling noun [ Middle English shilling , schilling , Anglo-Saxon scilling ; akin to Dutch schelling , Old Saxon & Old High German scilling , German schilling , Swedish & Danish skilling , Icelandic
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10. shilling
    1. A silver coin, and money of account, of Great Britain and its dependencies, equal to twelve pence, or the twentieth part of a pound, equivalent to about twenty-four cents of the United States currency. ... 2. In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. I...
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11. shilling
    noun an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
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12. Shilling
    • (n.) The Spanish real, of the value of one eight of a dollar, or 12/ cets; -- formerly so called in New York and some other States. See Note under 2. • (n.) In the United States, a denomination of money, differing in value in different States. It is not now legally recognized. • (n....
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13. shilling
    former English and British coin, nominally valued at one-twentieth of a pound sterling, or 12 pence. The shilling was also formerly the monetary unit ... [1 related articles]
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14. shilling
    
    • the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
    • the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents
    • the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents
    • the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents
    • a former monetary unit in Great Britain
    • an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
    
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15. Shilling
    The shilling is the currency of Kenya.
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16. shilling
    A British coin of ancient origin, but since its revival in 1550, a silver piece with a face value of 12 old pence, and after decimalisation replaced by the 5p piece. Shilling is abbreviated to `s`.
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17. Shilling
    Twelve old pence (5 new pence). There were twenty shillings in a pound. For more information on the currency of the time, see Coinage, Currency and the Cost of Living.
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18. shilling
    monetary unit equal to 12 pence; 20 shillings equaled 1 pound.( * see note)
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19. Shilling
    The `shilling` is a unit of currency used in some current and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from scilling, an accounting term that dates back to Anglo-Saxon times where it was deemed to be the value of a cow in Kent or a sheep elsewhere. The word is tho...
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20. Shilling
    (Irish coin) The `shilling coin` was a pre-decimal coin worth ¹/₂₀th of an Irish pound. The coin featured the bull on the obverse side. The original minting of the coin from 1928 until 1942 contained 75% silver; this Irish coin had a higher content than the e...
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21. Shilling
    (disambiguation) The `shilling` was a coin used in British Commonwealth countries and was continued to be used in countries that left the commonwealth, such as Ireland and Tanzania. Several African countries continue to have national currencies named shillings. Units of currency: People named Shilling: Other meanings of `shilling`: See also:
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22. Shilling
    (British coin) The `British shilling` was a coin used in the Kingdom of Great Britain and later the United Kingdom. Before the Treaty of Union in 1707 England and Scotland had their own separate shillings which had been in use since medieval times. The British shilling was the successor of th...
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23. Shilling
    (English coin) The `English shilling` was a coin of the Kingdom of England, when first introduced known as the `testoon`. It remained in circulation until it became the British shilling as the result of the Union of England and Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. There were...
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