kantar
[kahn-tahr]
- (in some Middle Eastern countries) a unit of weight corresponding to the hundredweight, but varying in different localities.
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Carolina Milanesi, a Strategic Insight Director with Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, tweeted that it could go one of two ways.
In 2011 NBC signed up as the sole broadcaster of the live games and made $150 million last year, according to Kantar Media.
Historical Examples
The last advices, not a month old, quoted thirty dinars the kantar and were rising.
The Mercy of AllahHilaire Belloc
kantar
- a unit of weight used in E Mediterranean countries, equivalent to 100 pounds or 45 kilograms but varying from place to place
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Word Origin
C16: from Arabic qintār, from Late Greek kentēnarion weight of a hundred pounds, from Late Latin centēnārium, from centum hundred
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