shilling
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- : a cupronickel coin and former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, the 20th part of a pound, equal to 12 pence: retained in circulation equal to 5 new pence after decimalization in 1971. Abbreviation: s.
- : a former monetary unit of various other nations, as Australia, Fiji, Ghana, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, and Nigeria, equal to one twentieth of a pound or 12 pence.
- : the monetary unit of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania, and Uganda, equal to 100 cents.
- : any of various coins and moneys of account used in various parts of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries.
- : shilling mark.
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Examples
Kate Moss's Self Tanner: Kate Moss is now shilling self-tanner.
For him, "elitism" effectively means putting intellectual honesty before partisan shilling.
The hootenanny on political websites about the contest being up for grabs is shilling for advertising dollars.
Shilling, a native of Arkansas, pleaded guilty to a pair of wire-fraud counts last July.
According to court papers, Williams met Shilling at an Inglewood restaurant on July 10, 2006.
The King now increased it to the enormous sum of two shilling and ten pence.
He would haggle in a bargain for a shilling, and economize in things beneath a wise man's notice or consideration.
Many a fine meerschaum keeps up its cheerful fire on a shilling a-week.
The penny at that time was equal to a shilling of the present day, and would, relatively, purchase as much.
It ran from Leicester to Loughborough and back at a fare of one shilling, and carried 570 passengers.