quid

CEFRB2

/kwɪd/

noun

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01
noun
A pound of British money, in informal speech.
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noun
Extra detail
A member of a section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811, following John Randolph of Roanoke. (From tertium quid.)

Examples

These shoes cost me two quid from a charity shop.
Didn't she only have five quid?

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 3

Also pronounced

[kʰw̥ɪd̥]

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noun

Extra meanings

Paired with quo, in reference to the phrase quid pro quo (“this for that”): something offered in exchange for something else.
The inherent nature of something.
A sovereign or guinea, that is, a certain coin or amount of money.

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In context

This squid is five quid.
Seven quid for a toastie? Are you taking the mick?!
[…]; but what is the quo for which they ought to give the quid? you say they ought to give a quid pro quo; what is the quo? […]; did not they give you a pretty handsome quid for the quo there?

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[…]; but what is the quo for which they ought to give the quid? you say they ought to give a quid pro quo; what is the quo? […]; did not they give you a pretty handsome quid for the quo there?
1886 May 19, Report from the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (No. 1) Bill [H.L.]; the Electric Lighting Act (1882) Amendment (...
Indeed, asymmetry precludes the possibility of pointing to any particular quo that is meant to recompense the quid. […]If there exists any kind of inequity between quid and quo, then—on this line of argument—the expansive category of “friendship” emerges to account for it, siphoning the situation away from the class of objectionable quid pro quo. The claim officials here make—that for a quid to have a quo there must be some equivalency between the two—draws theoretical sustenance from the objective, exclusionary approach that critics of classical contract law apply to disproportionate exchanges.
2000, Andrew Stark, Conflict of Interest in American Public Life, →ISBN, pages 163–164
Corruption, the Court declared in Buckley v. Valeo, involves a quid pro quo: an officeholder doing something in office in return for money or some other favor provided by another individual or entity (for our purposes, a corporation). The problem, however, is that in principle there can be a quid—the money or favor offered by the business to the official—and a quo—the action taken by the official that benefits the business—without any clear evidence of a pro, that is, that the two are connected.[…]The “pro,” the connection between quid and quo, might take place only inside the minds of the official and businessperson concerned.
2009, George G. Brenkert, Tom L. Beaucham, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, page 504
It is hard to pull off a quid pro quo if the holder of the quo doesn’t know about the quid.
2020, John Yoo, Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, New York, N.Y.: All Points Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, →ISBN
Then he lay quiet for a little, and then, pulling out a stick of tobacco, begged me to cut him a quid.
1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Israel Hands”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 210

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Origin

noun

Borrowed from Latin quid (“what, something”), neuter singular of quis (“who”).

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noun

He paid twenty blank for the concert ticket at the venue.