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Old money

English

Noun

old money (uncountable)

  1. (British) The monetary system used in the United Kingdom before decimalisation and consisting of pounds, shillings and pence.
  2. (British, jocular) The imperial system of measurement, as opposed to the metric system.
    These scales say I weigh 72 kilograms - what's that in old money?


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