cwt

American  

1. hundredweight; hundredweights.

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cwt British  

abbreviation

1. hundredweight

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Etymology

Origin of cwt

c, from the Latin numeral C one hundred ( centum )

Example Sentences

The shortfall is causing rice prices to rise to an abnormally high average of $17.30 per cwt through the rest of the year.

From Washington Times • Apr. 20, 2023

At the same time, choice-graded beef at wholesale reached an all-time high of $240.73 per cwt following a 10-day string of record highs.

From Reuters • Jan. 29, 2014

Milk was $16 per cwt in the spring.

From Reuters • Aug. 10, 2012

Tobacco income was up 35% over last year, was five times greater than in 1931 when the average price was $8.86 per cwt.

From Time Magazine Archive

To this must be added the quantity under cultivation by the natives, who possess about 36,000 acres of coffee plantations, and in the year 1859 alone, exported 180,000 cwt.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von