sterling's Usage Examples:

A sum of 20 millions sterling was voted as compensation to the planters.

In the early years of the 19th century there were colonies of English planters in many districts of Bengal, and it was calculated that the planters of North Behar alone had a turnover of a million sterling.

2 Dollars to pounds sterling @ 4.

925 hallmark (925/1000 of silver), sometimes with the word sterling or the abbreviation for sterling (STER) inside the ring band for American jewelry.

This point of view suggested numerous projects, as chimerical as they were generous; two millions sterling (50 million francs) were expended with a view to installing Parisian unemployed workmen as colonists, but this attempt failed miserably.

devaluation of sterling.

In such cases the immediate damage done may be slight; but the effects of prolonged action and the summation of numerous attacks at numerous points are often enormotis, certain of these leafdiseases costing millions sterling annually to some planting and agricultural communities.

The gold value of the currency peso (75 £1 in 1903, 70 £I in 1904, 58 £1 in 1905) fluctuates between limits so wide that conversion into sterling (especially for a series of years), with any pretension to accuracy, is impracticable.

Wheat, barley, eggs, butter, oilcake, hides, tallow, leather, tobacco, rugs, feathers and other items add considerably to the total value of the exports, which increased from 14 million sterling in 1851-1860 to 8-14 millions sterling in 1901-1905.

There is further a small transit trade through Transcaucasia from Persia to the value of less than half a million sterling annually, and chiefly in carpets, cocoons and silk, wool, rice and boxwood; and further a sea-borne trade between Persia and Caucasian.

It remarked upon Clarke's " Damascene conversion to the joys of sterling " .

Synonyms:

superlative, greatest, superior,

Antonyms:

low, subordinate, worst, inferior,