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cental

[ sen-tl ]

noun

  1. Chiefly British. a hundredweight of 112 pounds (50.8 kilograms).


cental

/ ˈ²õÉ›²Ô³ÙÉ™±ô /

noun

  1. a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds (45.3 kilograms)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cental1

First recorded in 1865–70; from Latin cent(um) 100 + (quint)al
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of cental1

C19: from Latin centum hundred
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That happened after Mr. Powell’s July news conference, when the chair hinted that rate increases might soon slow, and investors incorrectly began to expect an imminent cental bank retreat.

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Last week, the cental bank raised interest rates by half a percentage point, disappointing some who thought that the move would be larger.

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Al-Shabab continues to hold large swaths of territory out of Mogadishu, in the rural cental part of the country, and in southern Somalia.

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He has largely supported the cental brank's tougher stance, though he has indicated he's open to easing regulations for smaller and regional banks.

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Though he was largely self-taught, that year he shipped, he wrote, ten thousand centals of wheat to San Francisco.

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