penniless
/ˈpɛ.nɪ.ləs/ adjective B1- Lacking even the smallest amount of money. · In societies without national insurance of any kind, almshouses are the last refuge of penniless people.
- Of a country's system of money, abstaining from the use of penny coins, despite having fully decimalized currency, by means of rounding of cash transactions (but not necessarily of cashless ones).
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