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معنى كلمة penny بالعربي

بنس (عملة نقدية)

النطق: /ˈpɛni/ | /ˈpɪni/ | /ˈpeni/

penny

A penny is a coin worth one cent.

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is on the penny.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
We had not proceeded very far across the south cantilever when we saw a penny lying beside the track, and another a short distance further on. We were to find several more pennies, and some half-pennies, before we reached the north shore. Inspector Bell explained that many passengers try to throw a coin into the Forth, for "good luck," while trains are crossing the bridge.
However he lost out, as other business interests whom he had alienated by his efforts to squeeze every penny of profit from the canal, supported the construction of the railway.
Holy shit! A hundred and eleven pennies! At that point, that dog had more Lincoln in him than Mary Todd.
A Treasury spokesperson said the government made its final order of penny blanks this month, and the United States Mint will continue to manufacture pennies only as long as an inventory of penny blanks exists.

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