Shilling
noun
Old unit of currency in Britain, equal to five pence in modern money.
He bought a loaf of bread for one shilling.
Often appears as...
- one shilling
- two shillings
noun
Current unit of currency in Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Uganda.
I paid 100 shillings for this meal.
Often appears as...
- 100 shillings
- pay in shillings
noun
Used in various idioms or phrases expressing the notion of value for money.
I wouldn't give you a shilling for that old car.
Often appears as...
- not worth a shilling
- not give a shilling
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
Old unit of currency in Britain, equal to five pence in modern money.
He bought a loaf of bread for one shilling.
Often appears as...
- one shilling
- two shillings
noun
Current unit of currency in Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia and Uganda.
I paid 100 shillings for this meal.
Often appears as...
- 100 shillings
- pay in shillings
noun
Used in various idioms or phrases expressing the notion of value for money.
I wouldn't give you a shilling for that old car.
Often appears as...
- not worth a shilling
- not give a shilling
Usage tips
Idiomatic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Value
Understand that one shilling was a significant amount of money in the past.
Back then, a shilling could buy you a decent meal.
Pro Tip 2/3Monetary Conversion
One old shilling equates to 5 new pence, assisting in understanding old money references.
Imagine, ten shillings would now be fifty pence!
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Significance
Shillings were part of a pre-decimalization currency system, often appearing in historical texts.
Novels set in the 19th century might price things in shillings.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Value
Understand that one shilling was a significant amount of money in the past.
Back then, a shilling could buy you a decent meal.
Pro Tip 2/3Monetary Conversion
One old shilling equates to 5 new pence, assisting in understanding old money references.
Imagine, ten shillings would now be fifty pence!
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Significance
Shillings were part of a pre-decimalization currency system, often appearing in historical texts.
Novels set in the 19th century might price things in shillings.
Pro Tip 1/3Historical Value
Understand that one shilling was a significant amount of money in the past.
Back then, a shilling could buy you a decent meal.
Pro Tip 2/3Monetary Conversion
One old shilling equates to 5 new pence, assisting in understanding old money references.
Imagine, ten shillings would now be fifty pence!
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Significance
Shillings were part of a pre-decimalization currency system, often appearing in historical texts.
Novels set in the 19th century might price things in shillings.
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Jacqueline Novogratz on...
And so she ultimately turned to prostitution. It wasn't organized in the way we often think of it. She would go into the city at night with about 20 girls, look for work, and sometimes come back with a few shillings, or sometimes with nothing. And she said, "You know, the poverty wasn't so bad. It was the humiliation
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How to change your...
They put 40 shillings, we give them four more, they say thank you very much. That person gave up six. They could have gotten six more if they gave a hundred, but they don't see it. So we created what we call pre-match. We put the 10 shillings in at the beginning of the week. We said, "It's waiting for you!"
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Sanga Moses: Using Waste...
for that kind of work here. So you have to fund everything. If there's need for buying things, be prepared to fund that." I said, "No problem." We started with the 10 students. We tried many things that didn't work. I actually left the bank with about 1.5 million Uganda shillings.
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Best Cheetah Moments PIPE...
all good so we can just go and collect shilling now it's taken chris do three years of unwavering dedication to get shelley to this point not every cheetah here develops good enough wild skills to be released but christo has high hopes for her she's
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How to Feel Like a...
that's worth about two shilling exactly that's about it I've never gambled in my life it but today I did feel different I felt that I wanted to gamble I wanted to take our jobs we ran the experiment several times that's it don't move
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Gorilla Tourism PIPE...
shillings to track gorillas for a day plus $15 to get it a percentage of that revenue goes into the community's coffers boosting incomes and funding projects like new schools in this country where the average income is
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Andrew Mwenda: Let's...
Where has all the aid gone? I want to use the example of my own country, called Uganda, and the kind of structure of incentives that aid has brought there. In the 2006-2007 budget, expected 2.5 trillion shillings.
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What does the bank of...
shillings both realizing the initial investment and again associated with him being invested for those nine nine months but he doesn't just invest into very interesting startup opportunities
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A Boat Made From Plastic...
were making few shillings the first environmentalists Ali designs every piece of the boat you
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Paul Kemp-Robertson:...
using TED florins or TED shillings? Thank you very much. Thank you.
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Jacqueline Novogratz on...
And so she ultimately turned to prostitution. It wasn't organized in the way we often think of it. She would go into the city at night with about 20 girls, look for work, and sometimes come back with a few shillings, or sometimes with nothing. And she said, "You know, the poverty wasn't so bad. It was the humiliation
Video examples
How to change your...
They put 40 shillings, we give them four more, they say thank you very much. That person gave up six. They could have gotten six more if they gave a hundred, but they don't see it. So we created what we call pre-match. We put the 10 shillings in at the beginning of the week. We said, "It's waiting for you!"
Video examples
Sanga Moses: Using Waste...
for that kind of work here. So you have to fund everything. If there's need for buying things, be prepared to fund that." I said, "No problem." We started with the 10 students. We tried many things that didn't work. I actually left the bank with about 1.5 million Uganda shillings.
Video examples
Best Cheetah Moments PIPE...
all good so we can just go and collect shilling now it's taken chris do three years of unwavering dedication to get shelley to this point not every cheetah here develops good enough wild skills to be released but christo has high hopes for her she's
Video examples
How to Feel Like a...
that's worth about two shilling exactly that's about it I've never gambled in my life it but today I did feel different I felt that I wanted to gamble I wanted to take our jobs we ran the experiment several times that's it don't move
Video examples
Gorilla Tourism PIPE...
shillings to track gorillas for a day plus $15 to get it a percentage of that revenue goes into the community's coffers boosting incomes and funding projects like new schools in this country where the average income is
Video examples
Andrew Mwenda: Let's...
Where has all the aid gone? I want to use the example of my own country, called Uganda, and the kind of structure of incentives that aid has brought there. In the 2006-2007 budget, expected 2.5 trillion shillings.
Video examples
What does the bank of...
shillings both realizing the initial investment and again associated with him being invested for those nine nine months but he doesn't just invest into very interesting startup opportunities
Video examples
A Boat Made From Plastic...
were making few shillings the first environmentalists Ali designs every piece of the boat you
Video examples
Paul Kemp-Robertson:...
using TED florins or TED shillings? Thank you very much. Thank you.
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Quote examples
Vidal Sassoon
British Businessman
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
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Bernard de Mandeville
English Philosopher
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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John Ridley
American Director
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
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Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
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David Linley
British Royalty
My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.
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Karl Philipp Moritz
German Author
In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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Deborah Meaden
English Businesswoman
My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or two to do jobs such as washing the car, cleaning and washing up.
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John James Audubon
American Scientist
Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
Quote examples
Vidal Sassoon
British Businessman
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.
Quote examples
Bernard de Mandeville
English Philosopher
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
Quote examples
Patrick Kavanagh
Irish Poet
The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
Quote examples
John Ridley
American Director
As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.
Quote examples
Henry Mayhew
English Journalist
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Quote examples
David Linley
British Royalty
My teaching was primarily focused on making, it wasn't about the pounds, shillings and pence. I remember being in college and being in business and there was just a weekend in between.
Quote examples
Karl Philipp Moritz
German Author
In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
Quote examples
Deborah Meaden
English Businesswoman
My parents felt I should earn my money because I would then value it. So they would pay me a shilling or two to do jobs such as washing the car, cleaning and washing up.
Quote examples
John James Audubon
American Scientist
Go where you will, if a shilling can there be procured, you may expect to meet with individuals in search of it.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
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