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/ˈSHiliNG/,
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shillings, plural;
  1. A former British coin and monetary unit equal to one twentieth of a pound or twelve pence

  2. The basic monetary unit in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, equal to 100 cents

  1. Ugandan shilling: the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents
  2. British shilling: a former monetary unit in Great Britain
  3. an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
  4. 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. ...
  5. The Australian Shilling was a coin of the Commonwealth of Australia prior to decimalization. The coin was minted from 1910 until 1963, excluding 1923, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1938, 1947, 1949 and 1951. After decimalization on 14 February 1966, it was equal to 10¢.
  6. 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.
  7. The shilling coin was a pre-decimal coin worth 1/20th of an Irish pound. The coin featured the bull on the obverse side.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. monetary unit equal to 12 pence; 20 shillings equaled 1 pound.( * see note)
  11. Measure of money used only for accounting purposes and equal to 12 pennies.
  12. This is a fraudulent practice in which the seller, using another auction account, bids on his merchandise to push up its price or has a willing associate do the bidding.
  13. a silver or silver coloured coin worth twelve pre-decimalisation pennies (12d). From Old High German 'skilling'. Similar words for coins and meanings are found all over Europe. ...
  14. Pre-decimal currency equal to 12 pennies and equivalent to 5p today.
  15. A practice in which a seller conspires with another eBay member to place phony bids that will artificially inflate the price of an item. See also bid rigging or collusion.
  16. n. 1. Five pence. [Also twelve old pence.]
  17. Just another symptom of the complete misunderstanding of Lewis Carol’s work that this production had. It is trying to stratify and rationalise a world that is meant to embody nonsense. What a load of hoggleballs.
  18. A British or British Empire coin about the size of a quarter and valued at twelve pence or one-twentieth of a pound. Some of the oldest shillings can be determined as such by the XII denomination appearing somewhere on the coin.
  19. Paying people to talk about (or promote) a product without disclosing that they are working for the company; impersonating a customer.
  20. cupronickel coin of the U.K., the 20th part of a pound equal to 12 pence use phased out in 1971. The Monetary unit of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. ...
  21. a former monetary unit of the United Kingdom, equal to 1/20 of a pound.
  22. shilling - an old type of coin or unit of money