OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 32595

penniless

/ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
miserable
Abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, via rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).
Canada became a penniless country in 2013 simply by rounding its cash transactions to the nearest nickel but otherwise not changing anything.
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