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Five-and-dime, dime store, a store selling cheap merchandise; a dime a dozen, so abundant as to be worth little (UK: ten a penny); on a dime, in a small space ("turn on a dime", UK: turn on a sixpence) or immediately ("stop on a dime", UK: stop on a sixpence); nickel-and-dime, originally an adjective meaning "involving small amounts of money ...
the use of debt finance (UK: gearing)* knowledge not immediately revealed to be used to one's advantage * liberal (politics) a person who generally supports the ideas of the UK Liberal Democrats, a centre-left party a person who holds the political ideals of Liberalism.
one thousand million, or 1,000,000,000 (US: billion or 1,000,000,000) [92] Has for a long time been superseded by the short scale usage of billion (1,000,000,000) and was never as commonly used in the UK as it still is in mainland Europe (where the long scale is still used); when the long scale was used in Britain, "a thousand million" was more ...
Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom. Glossary of British terms not widely ... in the UK and US. This list has been split between:
Labour fought last year's UK general election with a manifesto pledge to lower Brexit-related barriers and red tape for the export of food and farm products to the European Union.
List of words having different meanings in American and British English (A–L) List of words having different meanings in American and British English (M–Z) Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United Kingdom; Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States
(v.) send a letter (UK: post or send); noun originated mail carrier & mailman (UK: postman), mailbox (UK: postbox; letter box), mail slot, mail drop, etc. mailbox file for storing electronic mail (or related computing or voicemail usage)
Accordingly, this page should use American spelling, and the List of words mainly used in British English (link updated to List of British words not widely used in the United States because of proposed redirect deletion TrevorD 23:03, 9 May 2006 (UTC)) should use British spelling. This would be darn good also for ESL students, many of which ...