tenner

American  

[ten-er] / ˈtɛn ər /

noun

Informal.

tenners plural

1. a 10-dollar bill.

2. British. a 10-pound note.

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tenner British  

/ ˈtɛnə /

noun

1. 1. a ten-pound note

   2. the sum of ten pounds

2. a ten-dollar bill

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tenners
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tenner

First recorded in 1840–50; ten + -er ¹

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tenner tenners

"People shouldn't have to trek for hours to withdraw a tenner to put in someone's birthday card - nor should businesses have to travel large distances to deposit cash takings," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2023

"My little sensor system, I could probably put it together for about a tenner," he says.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2022

GMB Scotland senior organiser Keir Greenaway 2% was "worth less than a tenner a week extra for staff earning under £25,000 a year" and was therefore "neither credible nor acceptable".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2022

And few political beasts are more interesting than Steve Bannon, Trump’s former strategist and not someone to whom I would gladly lend my last tenner.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 16, 2018

I said if he met me at the London Eye and helped me and my mate Salim carry out this joke we were planning, we'd give him a tenner.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

More than £28bn in old fivers, tenners, £20 and even £50 notes have not been cashed in.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2021

People were sending in their fivers and tenners.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2019

Stray a little too far into personal territory and you immediately feel like a tabloid hack with a back pocket stuffed full of grubby tenners.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 10, 2017

The coalition's case is that Labour behaved like the pools winners of yesteryear, showering tenners around like confetti.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010

The notes weren't fivers, nor tenners; they were all twenty-pound notes.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell