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shilling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | somalian shilling |
| Type of | somalian monetary unit |
shilling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | kenyan shilling |
| Type of | kenyan monetary unit |
shilling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | bob, british shilling |
| Type of | british monetary unit |
shilling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | tanzanian shilling |
| Type of | tanzanian monetary unit |
shilling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | ugandan shilling |
| Type of | ugandan monetary unit |
shilling::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | coin |
Examples of shilling
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Davis hosts an overnight radio show but chafes at shilling during pledge drives.
From the theatlantic.com
Besides, if you take the king's shilling, you must take the king's auditor, too.
From the upi.com
The counterfeit notes have caused a massive devaluation of the Somali shilling.
From the voanews.com
I'm not shilling for Vanguard or recommending that you buy an annuity from AIG.
From the washingtonpost.com
Tom and Partridge come across a lame fellow in rags to whom Tom gives a shilling.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Later two shilling, four penny and three penny coins were added to the coinage.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They weren't shilling any ancillary products or video games or crossover come-ons.
From the washingtonpost.com
Shilling expects the savings rate to rise from 4.2% to 10% in the next decade.
From the businessweek.com
The one shilling fare included, unusually for train transport at the time, a meal.
From the independent.co.uk
- Ugandan shilling: the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
- British shilling: a former monetary unit in Great Britain
- An English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
- The shilling is a unit of currency used in some current and former British Commonwealth countries. The word shilling comes from schilling, 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. ...
- In the United Kingdom, the shilling was a coin used from the reign of Henry VII until decimalisation in 1971. Before decimalisation there were twenty shillings to the pound and twelve pence to the shilling, and thus 240 pence to the pound.
- The shilling coin was a pre-decimal coin worth 1/20th of an Irish pound. The coin featured the bull on the obverse side.
- A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries; The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda
- 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.
- Monetary unit equal to 12 pence; 20 shillings equaled 1 pound.( * see note)
