pound

Definition

Examples

The imported goods cost about ten pounds each in the London store.

Word Family

Collocations

• Easy cost five pounds
  to cost five pounds, meaning to be priced at
• Medium lose ten pounds of weight
  to lose ten pounds of weight, meaning to fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense
• Hard pound the pavement searching for employment
  to pound the pavement searching for employment, meaning to hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument
• Very Hard penny wise and pound foolish
  describing penny wise and pound foolish (a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound)