hundredweight
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- noun
- /ˈhʌndrədˌweɪt/
- Specialized
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- In the Livestock Index, the September hog price averaged $56.50 per hundredweight, down $10.40 from August.
Examples
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Beef cattle increased $3.00 to $120, and the all-milk price was $1.00 higher at $19.10 per hundredweight.
Blog text (3) -
They had passed their whole lives side by side and had eaten their way through many a hundredweight.
Fiction book (1996) -
The most dramatic drop in hog prices in history followed, dipping to $8 per hundredweight.
Academic text (1999) -
In the four years after his introduction in 1820 of long-crop Jumel cotton, annual production rose from 944 to 228,078 hundredweight.
Academic text (2010) -
The price of oranges dropped to $25 per hundredweight this year.
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During the harvest, the farmers sold their corn at $50 per hundredweight.
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Each truck can carry up to five hundredweights of potatoes at a time.
Synonyms
An American measure of weight equal to 100 pounds, about 45 kilograms
A unit of weight equal to 100 pounds used for crops in the US
A unit of weight in the United States equal to 100 pounds
A unit of weight equal to 100 pounds used in the United States
Compounds
- Specialized
An American measure of weight equal to 100 pounds, about 45 kilograms
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Etymology
Hundredweight comes from the words hundred and weight, meaning a 'hundred' unit of weight. In the United States it came to mean 100 pounds (about 45 kg), so the name helps you remember a 'hundred' of pounds.