BRITISH MONETARY UNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British monetary unit mean? 

• BRITISH MONETARY UNIT (noun)
  The noun BRITISH MONETARY UNIT has 1 sense:

1. monetary unit in Great Britain

  Familiarity information: BRITISH MONETARY UNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITISH MONETARY UNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Monetary unit in Great Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("British monetary unit" is a kind of...):

monetary unit (a unit of money)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "British monetary unit"):

British pound; British pound sterling; pound; pound sterling; quid (the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence)

bob; British shilling; shilling (a former monetary unit in Great Britain)