punt

Examples

• All

• 3) We need to run when it's not working, and go with a "punt is better than a turnover" strategy.

  Blog text (20)

• Punt.

  Mascots (2016)

• The cash only amounted to a few punts and some change, but the purse contained her keys to a flat in Paris.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Disturbingly for a theory based on sophisticated expectations formation by financial markets, Portugal and Ireland were able to claim with some credibility that investors failed to distinguish between the escudo and peseta and between the punt and pound.

  Academic text (2003)

• I never doubted it for a moment after I saw them in the punt, although I still have no idea what she was saying or what the book was—it could have been Latin verbs or her diary.

  Fiction book (1999)

• In 2002, the Irish punt was replaced by the euro as the country's currency.

• When I visited Ireland, I exchanged my dollars for Irish punt at the bank.

• The price of the hotel was 100 Irish punt per night before the currency change.

Synonyms

I

Irish pound

vspunt

• Literature

1 6.4

Former money used in Ireland before the euro

is the same unit but differs only as an alternative name

I

Irish punt

vspunt

• Literature

8.7

A unit of money used in Ireland before the euro

is the named currency unit replaced by the euro in 2002

I

Irish monetary unit

vspunt

• Literature

7.8

Old currency used in Ireland before the euro

is more specific about exact value and pence than this term

Compounds

I

Irish punt

• Literature

8.7

A unit of money used in Ireland before the euro

Surface Forms

Etymology