tenner

See also: Tenner

English

ten +‎ -er

tenner (plural tenners)

(informal) A monetary note (bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, a ten-shilling (half pound) note.
- 2016, Rob Eastaway & Mike Askew, "Maths on the Go: 101 Fun Ways to Play with Maths", page 40:
  [...] or, if you're feeling brave, a tenner. Tell your child they have a chance to win the fiver if they can [...]
- 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  The more a shop looks as though it trades in farthings and ha’pennies, the more tenners and twenties you can expect to hand over at the till.
- 2023 March 5, Miranda Sawyer, quoting Jason Williamson, “Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course – all we’ve got left are landmarks’”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:
  I’ve visited Eton, there’s loads of places like it, and if that’s all you know, then you’ve definitely not had to worry about pulling a tenner out of the bank…
(film, slang) A kind of 10-kilowatt lamp.
- 2008, Blain Brown, Motion Picture and Video Lighting, page 11:
  The basic 10K, known as a tenner or studio 10K, has a 20-inch fresnel. The big daddy of the group is the Big Eye tenner, which has a 24-inch lens.
A tennis shoe.

note worth ten basic units of currency

Bulgarian: десятка f (desjatka)
Dutch: tientje (nl) n
Finnish: kymppi (fi)
German: Zehner (de) m
Hungarian: tízes (hu), (more commonly specified with the currency:) tízdolláros (hu), tízeurós, tízfontos etc.
Irish: páipéar deich bpunt
Polish: dycha (pl) f
Russian: десятка (ru) f (desjatka)
Swedish: tia (sv) c

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