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centavo
[ sen-tah-voh; Spanish sen-tah-vaw ]
noun
- one 100th of the monetary units of various nations, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines.
centavo
/ sɛnˈtɑːvəʊ /
noun
- a monetary unit of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units
- a former monetary unit of Ecuador, El Salvador, and Portugal, worth one hundredth of their former standard units
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Origin of centavo1
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Example Sentences
He reveals that his monthly hazard pay amounts to just 300 Philippine pesos—a little over $6—and even then he has yet to receive a single centavo of it.
Nation has interesting monetary system based on peso with peso being worth 100 centavos and centavo being worth nothing.
At the bar, a laughing longshoreman pushed a five-centavo coin into the nickeled red juke box, pressed the "Bsame" button.
Out of pity he gave her a centavo, and in return she gave him an empty purse from which he could ask any sum of money he wanted.
The humbler children would gather about us, pleading, "Americano, gimme a centavo!"
I show them peons—ten-centavo men when we took them, and five-peso men when I showed them.
Buyo and cigars.The luxuries of the Filipinos are buyo8 and cigars—a cigar costing half a centavo, and a buyo much less.
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