(a.) Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
Example Sentences:
(1) But The Observer also lost many conservative readers and advertisers, and ended up with more impecunious readers who were less attractive to advertisers.
(2) The financial services industry was throwing money at any impecunious sad-sack strong enough to push through its doors.
(3) Some have even sought to mute others: earlier this month, impecunious Greece vetoed a European Union condemnation of China’s human rights record at the United Nations (a matter of principle, an official straight-facedly insisted).
(4) He was a successful student and lived an impecunious bohemian life in Chelsea, sharing houses with other painters and with Dylan Thomas, who never had a room of his own, just slept on the floor using his trousers as a pillow.
(5) When a dating show contestant rebuffed an impecunious suitor with the words, "I would rather cry in the back of a BMW than laugh on the back of a bicycle", they instantly became part of popular lore.
(6) At the age of 38, by now a lecturer at Surrey University, he came to the conclusion that the life of an impecunious British academic wasn't for him.
(7) And at some point the hotel chains might wake up from their snoozeathon and point out how much revenue cities stand to lose if they are not around to pay their taxes and business rates, though the evidence suggests that Airbnb creates its own market and caters for demographics traditionally not well catered for by hotels – the impecunious, families, people who like to cook an egg.
(8) Although they will often be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the charity, the indemnity will be worthless if the charity is impecunious.
(9) Many of the difficulties are financial and situational, including small departments and divisions, few pediatric research mentors, impecunious pediatric hospitals and services, ethical constraints on pediatric research and competing responsibilities.
(10) The impecunious curate's family were crowded into a little terrace house on Chichester's North Walls, and it seems likely that incestuous relations with at least one of Eric's sisters started here.
(11) Guinness had an impecunious childhood, with a modest boarding-school education at Pembroke Lodge, in Southborne, and Roborough, in Eastbourne.
(12) A t the Mansion House speech in the City on Wednesday night, George Osborne confirmed his decision to adopt a Mr Micawber approach to the public finances – that balancing income and expenditure is the key to happiness – and enshrine in law the new government’s determination to run permanent budget surpluses Living within your income was the maxim of the impecunious but irrepressible Micawber, of Charles Dickens’ novel David Copperfield and is now the aim of the chancellor, too.
(13) On costs, the report calls on the government to look at "measures to reduce costs and to speed up libel litigation will help address the mismatch in resources between wealthy corporations and impecunious defendants."
Penny
Definition:
(a.) Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination, with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which one thousand weight ten pounds.
(n.) An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).
(n.) Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
(n.) Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.
(n.) See Denarius.
(a.) Worth or costing one penny.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) One minister said at the tail end of last week that they had spent their final working days spending every last penny they could find in their departmental budget.
(3) Told him we'll waive VAT on #BandAid30 so every penny goes to fight Ebola November 15, 2014 Thousands of onlookers turned out to watch the arrival of artists including One Direction, Paloma Faith, Disclosure, Jessie Ware, Ellie Goulding and Clean Bandit at Sarm studios in Notting Hill, west London .
(4) The penny that has not yet dropped with most of us is that we have arrived at a make-or-break moment: if we are to have any real chance of avoiding dangerous warming, the scientists now agree, global emissions must peak within the next five to 10 years and then begin to fall.
(5) Instead, we are investing massively in our UK network, (more than £1bnthis year alone) and creating hundreds of new UK jobs as every penny of our UK profit is invested back into our UK business.
(6) Thus did the president's brother become the third biggest shareholder in the country's biggest bank without spending a penny of his own money.
(7) GMTV presenter Penny Smith has already left and Ben Shephard and Andrew Castle will be departing before the autumn relaunch.
(8) "In ocean races in sailing a handicap prize is awarded as well as a line honours prize to recognise sailing skill rather than simply the newest and most expensive boat," writes Benjamin Penny.
(9) Even Battersea's tiny 503 theatre, which gets not a penny of public money, has had a surer instinct for new plays – Katori Hall's The Mountaintop won at the Olivier awards last March – than Hampstead, which currently receives £930,000 from Arts Council England alone.
(10) Quality Street toffee penny yellow is the new pink Breaking news!
(11) The 10,000-sq ft gatehouse has a 12-seat cinema and staff quarters, and sits opposite the home of the current commerce secretary, Penny Pritzker.
(12) The exhibition will include the earliest roadside pillar box erected on the mainland – in 1853, a year after the first went up in Jersey in the Channel Isles – and unique and priceless sheets of Penny Black stamps.
(13) The favours Icac found that Macdonald bestowed on his friend included inside knowledge of the granting of the mining tenement of Mount Penny and the expression-of-interest process for mining exploration licences in the area.
(14) Labor’s Senate leader, Penny Wong, argued it was up to the Senate to act because of the failure of the prime minister, Tony Abbott, to act.
(15) Andrew Mitchell, the international development secretary, said there was a "moral imperative" to tackle world poverty which is "firmly in Britain's national interest as he pledged to spend "every penny" of overseas aid effectively (2.13pm).
(16) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
(17) Cinema chains in the UK and abroad fear relaxation of the window in case film lovers decide to save their pennies and see new releases at home rather than travelling to their nearest multiplex.
(18) The colour to channel for next season is, in fact, not matt buttercup yellow but the gold-foil sheen best explained as the colour of the toffee penny in a box of Quality Street.
(19) Although I sent several reminders, I never saw a penny or heard from him again.
(20) Try Penny Dreadful Read more Conleth Hill, who plays Machiavellian royal fixer Varys, kept the crowd in stitches.