cent
one 100th of the dollar, or other basic monetary unit, of various nations, including the United States. Symbol: ¢, c
penny (def. 1): 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.
Origin of cent
1Words that may be confused with cent
Other definitions for cent- (2 of 3)
variant of centi- before a vowel: centare.
Other definitions for cent. (3 of 3)
centigrade.
central.
centum.
century.
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How to use cent in a sentence
As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.
Bush, Christie, Romney: Who’ll Be the GOP Class Warrior? | Lloyd Green | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was then shipped to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and sold for 50 cents on the dollar.
The Flying Sorcery of Dr. Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch Is Marvel's Most Bizarre Magician | Rich Goldstein | December 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMaybe the Central Park Five deserved 10 times as much money as they got, or 10 cents on the dollar.
Satyarthi explains that these 60 million kids work for 200 days in a year, earning about 25 cents a day.
Kailash Satyarthi, Malala's Nobel Peace Prize Co-Winner, Is Fighting India's Child Slavery Epidemic | Dilip D’Souza | October 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt costs a $1.80 for the initial connection, and then 31 cents every minute thereafter.
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At that time, the postage on letters from that region was very high, sometimes as much as fifty or sixty cents, or even a dollar.
The Boarded-Up House | Augusta Huiell SeamanBut, he finally secured the address of a company who would manufacture a book to exceed 300 pages for fifty cents per book.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxOrlean had secured a position in a ladies' tailoring establishment at five dollars and fifty cents a week, and there he went.
The Homesteader | Oscar MicheauxFifteen cents is the price, and many are palmed off on the unwise for the real imported article.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.These are certainly the vilest cigars made anywhere in the world, and are sold from one to five cents each.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce | E. R. Billings.
British Dictionary definitions for cent
/ (sɛnt) /
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)
Origin of cent
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with cent
see for two cents; not worth a dime (red cent); put in one's two cents.
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