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penny packet en · ADJ

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Paltry; insignificant.
   • Scattered across the four corners of Algeria, it was employed […] like the penny-packet handling of the French armour which had brought such disaster in 1940. 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 331:

penny packet en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A small number of things or people; a small group.

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