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cent
1[ sent ]
noun
- one 100th of the dollar, or other basic monetary unit, of various nations, including the United States. : ¢, c
Sorry, I’ve only got two dimes, a nickel, and four cents.
- a monetary unit of certain European Union countries, one 100th of a euro.
cent-
2- variant of centi- before a vowel:
centare.
cent.
3abbreviation for
- centigrade.
- central.
- centum.
- century.
cent
/ ɛԳ /
noun
- a monetary unit of American Samoa, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bermuda, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Brunei, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Dominica, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, the Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritius, Mayotte, Micronesia, Monaco, Montenegro, Namibia, Nauru, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, the Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Réunion, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Surinam, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, the United States, the Vatican City, the Virgin Islands, and Zimbabwe. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units
- an interval of pitch between two frequencies f 2 and f 1 equal to 3986.31 log ( f 2 / f 1 ); one twelve-hundredth of the interval between two frequencies having the ratio 1:2 (an octave)
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of cent1
Idioms and Phrases
see for two cents ; not worth a dime (red cent) ; put in one's two cents .Example Sentences
The day after the bankruptcy announcement, shares fell roughly 50% and closed Friday at 61 cents.
Don’t be surprised if there’s a few extra cents rung up on your receipt this week.
He said that "60 per cent" of core funding must be spent on "actual change on the ground".
Moore said a settlement could help establish a rate card where drivers are paid a minimum of $1.75 per mile and 60 cents per minute — a model similar to that adopted in New York City.
It’s the nerdiest game to play, but I’ll go and spend 50 cents and play for an hour.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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