(British) Prior to decimalisation.
(British) Prior to decimalisation.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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The monetary system used in the United Kingdom and Ireland before decimalisation in 1971 and consisting of pounds, shillings, pence and farthings.
(British) The decimal monetary system used in the United Kingdom since 1971.
(Britain, Ireland, etc., historical) (in pre-decimalisation currency, never used for 'two new pence').
(not comparable) Prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order.
(obsolete, Scottish) formerly.