cent
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- noun
- /sɛnt/
:
centavo
- They will track every cent and even keep these bizarre records.
- dollars and cents
- five cents
- ten cents
I may have told this story, but I remember the five cent coke again, right?
- I may have told this story, but I remember the five cent coke again, right?
- And I didn't get a cent on it because it came from here.
- They will track every cent and even keep these bizarre records.
- Do I need to make a change of N cents?
- And that, that was literally the last cent that I had.
- But each month you can expect to get a few cents per minute of premium watch time.
- And then the demand for robo taxis will exist at probably cents per mile.
- I think we've raised half a million cents the debate already, maybe more.
Examples
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After counting my change, I realized I had exactly fifty cents in my pocket.
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I'm still 20 cents short.
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Is this why every cent I made I spent on you?
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And that, that was literally the last cent that I had.
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There are eight cents missing.
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I would spend every cent I own and all I could borrow to block you.
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What, for 10 cents on the dollar?
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For them to go down to 50 cents?
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Twenty cents for the night shift!
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Of every dollar Latin America spends on imports, 50 cents comes to the United States.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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A small coin worth one of 100 parts of a pound or dollar
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A small coin equal to one hundredth of a franc used in French-speaking countries
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A small coin worth one hundredth of a peso or other money
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A coin worth one hundredth of a pound first made in Britain in 1971
A coin worth one hundredth of the main unit of money in some countries
A small coin equal to one hundredth of a country's currency, used in countries like Panama and Uruguay
A small money unit or coin in Haiti equal to one hundredth of a gourde
A unit of money in Algeria equal to one hundredth of a dinar
A former Lithuanian coin equal to one hundredth of a litas
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Etymology
The word cent comes from the old Latin word centum, which means 'one hundred'. So a cent is a 'one-hundredth' part of a dollar or euro, and you can see the same root in familiar words like century and percent.