cent

C0196300 (sĕnt)n. Abbr. ct. A unit of currency equal to ¹/₁₀₀ of various currencies, including the US dollar and the euro.

[Middle English, from Old French, hundred, from Latin centum; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.]Our Living Language The plural of cent is cent in some varieties of vernacular Southern English when preceded by a numeral: That costs eighty cent. See Note at foot

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(sɛnt) n1. (Currencies) 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, 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, the Netherlands Antilles, 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, Surinam, Swaziland, 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 units2. (Units) 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)[C16: from Latin centēsimus hundredth, from centum hundred]

cent

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n. 1. a bronze coin and monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 1/100 of the dollar. Symbol: ¢ 2. a monetary unit of various other nations, including Ethiopia, the Netherlands, South Africa, and many Commonwealth nations, equal to 1/100 of the basic currency. [1325–75; Middle English < Latin centēsimus hundredth (by shortening), derivative of cent(um) 100]

cent.

1. centigrade. 2. central. 3. centum. 4. century.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	$cent - a fractional monetary unit of several countries$ cent - a fractional monetary unit of several countriesdollar - the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centsfractional monetary unit, subunit - a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unitbirr - the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 centsDutch florin, florin, guilder, gulden - formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 centsleone - the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 centslilangeni - the basic unit of money in Swaziland; equal to 100 centsbob, British shilling, shilling - a former monetary unit in Great Britainrand - the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 centsMauritian rupee, rupee - the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 centsSeychelles rupee, rupee - the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 centsrupee, Sri Lanka rupee - the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents
	2.	cent - a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unitcentime, pennycoin - a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as moneycopper - a copper pennynew penny - a coin used in Great Britain since 1971 worth one hundredth of a pound

Translations

分货币单位

cent

(sent) noun a coin equal to the hundredth part of a dollar, rupee, rand etc. 分（货币单位）

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n. one dollar. (Underworld.) One cent for one joint? Not bad.

See:

(one's) two cents' worth
a good five-cent cigar
a/one hundred per cent
a/one hundred percent
cent
cut off
cut off with a cent
cut off with(out) a shilling/cent
dollars-and-cents
feel like two cents
for two cents
give (one's) two cents
give (one's) two cents' worth
he wears a $10 hat on a five-cent head
He wears a ten-dollar hat on a five-cent head
not a red cent
not have a penny to your name
not have a red cent
not one red cent
not worth a damn
not worth a dime
not worth a red cent
put (one's) two cents in
put (one's) two cents' worth in
put in (one's) two cents
put in (one's) two cents' worth
put in one's two cents
put oar in
red cent
red cent, not worth/don't have a
two cents
two cents (worth), for/put in your
your two cents' worth

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noun a fractional monetary unit of several countries

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noun a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

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