shilling
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6.5
- noun
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- Thirty shillings a week.
- Kenyan shillings
- million shillings
- twenty shillings
Every single shilling bro blew the lot.
- Every single shilling bro blew the lot.
Examples
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In Kenya, a small snack costs just fifty shillings.
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He found some old coins, including several shillings from Uganda.
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Try to keep in line and hand me a shilling as you pass.
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Why, I could earn five shillings yet tonight.
Fiction book (1999) -
Further, the three shillings in question are hers to keep.
Fiction book (2000) -
Since then, he usually asks for 20 or sometimes 200 shillings.
Academic text (1995) -
It's worth far more than the five shillings I'm charging you for it.
Academic text (2001) -
Fadwa is to pay 7 pounds and 7 shillings per week for room and board.
Academic text (2003) -
For example, in the 2000 drought, the Daily Nation newspaper raised millions of shillings.
Academic text (2009) -
We had to reduce everyone's fee by two shillings.
Synonyms
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3.0
Money used in Kenya where one unit equals 100 cents
The money used in Somalia that is equal to 100 cents
The money used in Uganda, equal to 100 cents
Money used in Tanzania that is divided into 100 cents
Idioms
To look pleased but not fully happy after a small gain that follows a disappointment
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shilling for the money in Kenya and other East African countries comes from the British coin called shilling that was brought there during colonial times. The old word scilling meant 'a small part', so the modern shilling is a unit of money equal to 100 cents.