quarter pound

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   4 ounces avoirdupois

   Broaderavoirdupois unit

   Part ofpound

Questions about quarter pound

What does quarter pound mean?

quarter pound means "4 ounces avoirdupois".

Is quarter pound a common word?

quarter pound is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.