If you take care of little things one at a time, they can add up to big things.

Alternative form of take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves

(countable) a charge based on the weight of something in pounds / (countable) a charge based on the value of something in pounds sterling / (countable) a weight measured in pounds

To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage.

(countable) a fee charged for keeping an animal in a pound, or for its release / (uncountable) the keeping of an animal in a pound

(dated, physics) A unit equal to the force needed to accelerate a mass of one pound at a rate of one foot per second per second.

(dated) A unit of work done when by a force of one poundal moves through a distance of one foot

(military, slang) A military soldier whose primary role is infantry or the use of ground-based materiel.

plural of poundal

A vessel in which something is pounded, or an implement used in pounding.