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centime
[ sahn-teem; French sahn-teem ]
noun
, plural cen·times [sahn, -, teemz, sah, n, -, teem].
- a monetary unit of various nations and territories, as Lichtenstein, Martinique, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tahiti, one 100th of a franc.
- a monetary unit of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg until the euro was adopted, one 100th of a franc.
- a money of account of Haiti, one 100th of a gourde.
- an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Algeria, one 100th of a dinar.
- an aluminum coin and monetary unit of Morocco, one 100th of a dirham.
centime
/ sɑ̃tim; ˈsɒnˌtiːm /
noun
- a monetary unit of Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, French Polynesia, Gabon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Mali, Mayotte, Morocco, New Caledonia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Switzerland, and Togo. It is worth one hundredth of their respective standard units
- a former monetary unit of Andorra, Belgium, France, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Luxembourg, Martinique, Monaco, and Réunion, worth one hundredth of a franc
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of centime1
C18: from French, from Old French centiesme from Latin centēsimus hundredth, from centum hundred
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Example Sentences
You receive mountains of twenty-cent-pieces: you never return anything, neither a five-franc-piece, nor even a centime.
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The light-heartedness of her nation is in her favor, and she has learned thoroughly how to extract the most from every centime.
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“Would you send a colored one, or just one of the regular dix-centime kind,” she inquired with interest.
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But neither he nor his creditors can lay a finger upon the pictures, nor raise a centime upon them.
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M. Dubois Thainville answered that he had received the Emperor's orders not to pay one centime.
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