Definitions for tenners

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tenners ten·ner

Spelling: [ten-er]

IPA: /ˈtɛn ər/

Tenners is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in tenners (eennrst).

Definitions for tenners

noun

1. a 10-dollar bill.
2. British. a 10-pound note.
3. a cardinal number, nine plus one.
4. a symbol for this number, as 10 or X.
5. a set of this many persons or things.
6. a playing card with ten pips.
7. Informal. a ten-dollar bill:
8. Also called ten's place. Mathematics. (in a mixed number) the position of the second digit to the left of the decimal point. (in a whole number) the position of the second digit from the right.

Idioms

1. take ten, Informal. to rest from what one is doing, especially for ten minutes.

adjective

1. amounting to ten in number.

Origin of tenners

First recorded in 1840-50; ten + -er¹

Examples for tenners

Sir Charles, please put me a tenner each way on the favourite.

Then I get home about three; there's a big row, but I get a tenner for the job.'

So that if a chestnut was a fiver, and it beat a tenner, it became at one leap a fifteener.

You've a lot of science, we all know, but I'll back Lance for a tenner.

Before the summer I come again and say, “Give me 49another tenner, and I'll be obliged.”

There's a tenner coming your way if he doesn't forget about it.

She was excited no doubt by thoughts of the race, and of the 'tenner' he was going to put on for her.

Its your way of attempting to get out of paying the tenner you promised.

Here,” he said, “do you feel like giving a tenner for a whisky and soda?

Let's see—tenner's Agency in Philly is a good place to start.