Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.
Perhaps the most common is the term bucks as a reference for US Dollars. Other common slang terms for dollars include cash, dough, moolah and smackers.. There are various other slang terms for money as well, some of which are general terms and others that are specific to certain denominations of money.
So it is never â500 sterlingâ but the sign in front of a shop can read payments accepted in sterling. Though some people refer to the currency as British Pound, this term is not used in formal situations. Quid is a slang term that is used to refer to money in Britain just as people use bucks for dollars in US.