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Definition of Pound sterling

1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence.

Definition of Pound sterling

1. Noun. The currency of the United Kingdom. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pound Sterling

Literary usage of Pound sterling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1839)
"VALUE OF THE pound sterling. We are indebted to Daniel Lord, Jr., Esq., ... The pound sterling is not a coin in England, but an arbitrary or imaginary sum, ..."

2. New Zealand Official Yearbook by New Zealand Dept. of Statistics (1900)
"Where the value is £40000 and is less than £50000, seven-eighths of a penny the pound sterling. Where the value is £50000 and is less than £70000, ..."

3. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)
"... of a lantern and one or two other trifles brought nearly their weight in gold; and an Englishman offered a pound sterling for a single breeches-button. ..."

4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"real value of the pound sterling, in which all contracts for the twenty preceding ... To avoid the flue- mating uncertainty to which the pound sterling, ..."

5. The Ways and Means of Payment: A Full Analysis of the Credit System, with by Stephen Colwell (1859)
"British money of account— The pound sterling — Guinea — Sir Isaac Newton — Earl Liverpool — System of 1816—Why fractions in weight of coins— Coins are ..."

6. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"The pound sterling is a money of account; the gold coin representing it is called a sovereign, the current value of which in United States coin is now ..."

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