a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent , issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857
per cent
You use per cent to talk about amounts. For example , if an amount is 10 per cent (10%) of a larger amount, it is equal to 10 hundredths of the larger amount.
red cent
a cent considered as a trivial amount of money (esp in the phrases not have a red cent , not worth a red cent , etc)
ten-cent store
a shop that sells everything at a very cheap price, formerly at ten cents , but now more often at a dollar
percent
percentage or proportion
not a red cent
no money at all
five-and-ten-cent store
a store that sells a wide variety of inexpensive merchandise , orig. with many articles priced at five or ten cents
a hundred per cent/one hundred percent
You can use a hundred per cent or one hundred per cent to emphasize that you agree completely with something or that it is completely right or wrong .
not have a penny to your name
to have very little money
All related terms of 'cent'
per cent
百分之 ... bǎi fēn zhī ...
by 15 per cent
以百分之十五 yǐ bǎi fēn zhī shíwǔ
a 20 per cent discount
优(優)惠百分之二十 yōuhuì bǎi fēn zhī èrshí
a or one hundred per cent
百分之百 bǎi fēn zhī bǎi
pc
per cent 百分之 bǎi fēn zhī
crime has increased by 10 per cent
犯罪率上升了10% fànzuìlǜ shàngshēngle bǎi fēn zhī shí
unemployment is running at 20 per cent
失业(業)率为(為)20% shīyèlǜ wéi bǎifēnzhī èrshí
cent
(sent)
Word forms: plural cents
1. countable noun
A cent is a small unit of money worth one-hundredth of some currencies, for example thedollar and the euro.
A cup of rice which cost thirty cents a few weeks ago is now being sold for up toone dollar.
We haven't got a cent.
2. See also per cent
cent in British English
(sɛnt)
noun
1.
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, eSwatini (Swaziland), 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, 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, Suriname, 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
2.
an interval of pitch between two frequencies f2 and f1 equal to 3986.31 log (f2/f1); one twelve-hundredth of the interval between two frequencies having the ratio 1:2 (an octave)
Word origin
C16: from Latin centēsimus hundredth, from centum hundred
cent in American English1
(sɛnt)
noun
1. US
a.
a monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 1⁄100 of a dollar; penny
symbol, ¢
b.
a coin of this value, made of an alloy of copper and zinc or tin; penny
2.
a monetary unit of various other countries, equal to 1⁄100 of the basic unit
Word origin
ME & OFr < L centum, hundred
cent in American English2
century; centuries
More idioms containing
cent
not a red cent
Examples of 'cent' in a sentence
cent
This is an area where close monitoring pays off in dollars and cents.
Christianity Today (2000)
They say the rise should be no more than two per cent.
The Sun (2011)
The temperature was at one hundred degrees and the humidity one hundred per cent.
Peter McEvoy For Love or Money (2006)
The pound dropped by more than a cent against the dollar after the figures were published.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Petrol costs two cents a litre.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Or was it a euro cent?
The Sun (2013)
Switzerland has a 4.5 per cent ratio and is considering raising it.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The sector remains 9 per cent smaller today than it was before the crisis struck.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Sterling is worth 12.7 per cent more against the dollar than a year ago.
The Sun (2009)
Altogether the fruit is worth 70 cents.
Pressley, Michael & McCormick, Christine Advanced Educational Psychology For Educators, Researchers and Policymakers, (1995)
The pound has also slipped 1.7 per cent against the euro over the past month.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The airline wants to double this to 12 per cent over two years.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Economists like to tally things in dollars and cents, but the significance of what happened cannot be expressed in purely monetary terms.
John Cassidy DOT.CON (2001)
I wonder how many of that 36 per cent make a small fortune employing cheap foreign workers.
The Sun (2014)
The spare capacity in the House was now 24 per cent.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
Germany have won 55 for a 60 per cent victory ratio.
The Sun (2010)
The existing subsidy arrangement of 43 per cent of costs with a 500,000 ceiling was obsolete.
Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since1945 (2003)
The company is gradually trading out of unwanted assets, now 15 per cent of the portfolio.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
cent
British English: cent /sɛnt/ NOUN
A cent is a small unit of money in many countries.