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cwt

American  
  1. hundredweight; hundredweights.


cwt British  

abbreviation

  1. hundredweight

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of cwt

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


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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

And that, said Marketing Administrator Nikitas John Cladakis, would drive the price of fluid milk to $4.81 per cwt.

From Time Magazine Archive

As much as £50 per cwt. was paid in 1882, but the ordinary price averages from £4 to £8 per cwt.

From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by William R. (William Richard) Hughes

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