pence
n. uncountablen. the plural form of penny, used when talking about British money. You use this word to describe an amount of money rather than individual coins.
n. the plural of penny when referring to a sum of money or a price in British currency. Distinguished from 'pennies', which refers to individual physical coins.
The newspaper costs ninety-five pence.
After the tax increase, the price of a litre of fuel rose by several pence overnight.
In the United Kingdom, the decimal pound is divided into one hundred pence, a system that replaced the complex shillings and pence of the pre-decimal era in 1971.
Used as a collective plural for prices and values; 'pennies' is used for the physical coins themselves.
It costs five pences.It costs five pence.Pence is already the plural form for a price; do not add an 's' to it.