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penny

noun as in red cent

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"It's like the penny was dropping, the expectation is that you’re there for a job, and actually you’re just there as a potential piece of meat."

From BBC

“I’m very against big corporations taking a bunch of money, because where does it go? Iron Maiden gave us $10,000 so I thought why don’t we form our own cancer fund? We know if everybody gives a penny, it’s going to go straight to where we want it to go to, which is research and education.”

That included then-prime minister Boris Johnson, with then cabinet member Penny Mordaunt telling the inquiry that two years of messages with him had disappeared.

From BBC

She is the penny pincher, and she’s the motivator for keeping everybody’s spirits up, sort of.

But this is what he likes about children: They don’t care about squeezing every last drop of profit from every penny.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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