Meanings
nounpoundsworth (uncountable)
- rareuncountableAn amount of something worth some number of pounds sterling.
[…] a poundsworth of Greek Drachmas to start us off when we arrived in Athens, and £2 in Jugoslav dinars.
2017, Richard Pike, Bright Tracks, page 41 more example
Aren't I so tied to my house and shop here where I have thousands of poundsworth of stuff […] that I should starve if I left them behind me.
1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London
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APA
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “poundsworth,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/poundsworth.
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