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• a ten-pound note
• a pound coin
• i've spent £25 on food today.
• what would you do if you won a million pounds?

pound

1. the unit of money in the UK, worth 100 pence
• SEE ALSO sterling
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• a ten-pound note
• a pound coin
• I've spent £25 on food today.
• What would you do if you won a million pounds?
• Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
• The blaze caused thousands of pounds worth of damage.
• He built the business into a multi-million pound food empire.
2. the unit of money of several other countries
• His salary will be about 5  000 Egyptian pounds per month.
3. the value of the British pound compared with the value of the money of other countries
• the strength/weakness of the pound against other currencies
• The pound fell sharply to a record low against the yen.
• The pound closed (= finished the day's trading) slightly down at $1.534.
• a run on the pound (= when many people sell pounds and the value of the pound falls)
4. a unit for measuring weight, equal to 0.454 of a kilogram
• half a pound of butter
• They cost two dollars a pound.
• I've lost six and a half pounds since I started my diet.
• a bronze sculpture weighing 7,000 pounds
• They sell organic black soybeans in 25-pound bags.
• The couch potato lifestyle is causing many people to pile on the pounds (= gain weight).
• She has shed 30 pounds.
5. a place where vehicles that have been parked illegally are kept until their owners pay to get them back
6. a place where dogs that have been found in the street without their owners are kept until their owners claim them
7. used to say that since you have started to do something, it is worth spending as much time or money as you need to in order to complete it
8. it is better to stop something bad from happening rather than try to deal with the problems after it has happened
9. the full amount that somebody owes you, even if this will cause them trouble or difficulty
• You’re determined to have your pound of flesh, aren’t you?

Word Origin

• noun senses 1 to 4 Old English pund, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pond and German Pfund, from Latin (libra) pondo, denoting a Roman “pound weight” of 12 ounces. noun senses 5 to 6 late Middle English (earlier in compounds): of uncertain origin. Early use referred to an enclosure for holding stray or trespassing cattle.