a monetary unit of Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, 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
2.
a former monetary unit of Andorra, Belgium, France, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Luxembourg, Martinique, Monaco, and Réunion, worth one hundredth of a franc
Word origin
C18: from French, from Old French centiesme from Latin centēsimus hundredth, from centum hundred
centime in American English
(ˈsɑnˌtim; ˈsɛnˌtim; French sɑ̃ˈtim)
noun
a monetary unit of various countries, equal to 1⁄100 of the basic unit
Word origin
Fr < OFr centisme, the hundredth < L centesimus: see centesimal
Examples of 'centime' in a sentence
centime
I'm sure that Agnes Neville's sense of honour would not rise to sacrificing a centime of her inheritance - or her daughter's.
Hilton, John Buxton MOONDROP TO MURDER (2002)
The thing is that if you're caught using them you're fined - a centime a word.
Brent-Dyer, Elinor CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL (2002)
"If you do not know, then you know nothing, and we shouldn't be paying you one centime !