cent

noun

/sent/

(abbreviation c, ct)

Idioms

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a coin and unit of money worth 1% of the main unit of money in many countries, for example of the US dollar or of the euro
- A one-minute phone call to the UK cost 10 cents.
- The price of diesel was increased by 17 cents per litre.
- The $300 he'd spent on a ticket was worth every cent.
see also per cent, red cent
Homophones cent | scent | sent
cent scent sent
/sent/

/sent/
- cent noun
  Not one cent of their profits goes to charity.
- scent noun
  The delicious scent of freshly baked bread floated to his window.
- sent noun (past tense, past participle of send)
  I sent her a thank you letter.
Topics Moneya1
Extra Examples
- Directors recommended a dividend of 60 cents per share.
- Subscribers pay 99 cents a song.
- The company offered its creditors 30 cents on the dollar (= 30 cents for every dollar it owed them).
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from French cent, Italian cento, or Latin centum ‘hundred’.

Idioms

put in your two cents’ worth (North American English)

(British English put in your two pennyworth, put in your two penn’orth)

(informal) to give your opinion about something, even if other people do not want to hear itTopics Opinion and argumentc2

单词	cent
释义	cent noun /sent/ /sent/ (abbreviation c, ct) Idioms jump to other results a coin and unit of money worth 1% of the main unit of money in many countries, for example of the US dollar or of the euro A one-minute phone call to the UK cost 10 cents. The price of diesel was increased by 17 cents per litre. The $300 he'd spent on a ticket was worth every cent. see also per cent, red cent Homophones cent \| scent \| sentcent scent sent /sent/ /sent/ cent noun Not one cent of their profits goes to charity. scent noun The delicious scent of freshly baked bread floated to his window. sent noun (past tense, past participle of send) I sent her a thank you letter. Topics Moneya1 Extra Examples Directors recommended a dividend of 60 cents per share. Subscribers pay 99 cents a song. The company offered its creditors 30 cents on the dollar (= 30 cents for every dollar it owed them). Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from French cent, Italian cento, or Latin centum ‘hundred’. Idioms put in your two cents’ worth (North American English) (British English put in your two pennyworth, put in your two penn’orth) (informal) to give your opinion about something, even if other people do not want to hear itTopics Opinion and argumentc2
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