Meaning of CENT
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- [n] a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- [n] a fractional monetary unit of several countries
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| | See Also: | | birr, bob, British shilling, coin, copper, dollar, florin, fractional monetary unit, guilder, gulden, leone, lilangeni, Mauritian rupee, new penny, rand, rupee, Seychelles rupee, shilling, Sri Lanka rupee, subunit | |
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| | Definition: | | \Cent\, n. [F. cent hundred, L. centum. See {Hundred}.]
1. A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts
in a hundred.
2. A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar,
formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
3. An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so
called because 100 points won the game. --Nares.
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| | Related Terms: | | a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, afghani, anna, bagatelle, baht, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, buck, button, C, cartwheel, centavo, centime, century, C-note, conto, copper, curio, Deutschmark, dime, dollar, dollar bill, dong, farce, farthing, feather, fifty cents, fig, fin, fish, five cents, five hundred dollars, five-dollar bill, five-hundred-dollar bill, fiver, five-spot, fleabite, florin, folderol, four bits, franc, fribble, frippery, frogskin, G, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, G-note, grand, guilder, gulden, hair, half a C, half dollar, half G, half grand, halfpenny, hill of beans, hundred-dollar bill, iron man, jest, joke, kickshaw, kip, knickknack, knickknackery, kopeck, krona, krone, lira, Mark, mill, milreis, minikin, mockery, molehill, nickel, penny, peppercorn, peseta, picayune, pie, piece of eight, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pistareen, pound, quarter, rand, rap, red cent, Reichsmark, rial, row of pins, ruble, rupee, rush, sawbuck, shekel, shilling, shit, silver dollar, skin, smacker, snap, sneeshing, sol, sou, stiver, straw, ten cents, tenner, ten-spot, thousand dollars, thousand-dollar bill, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, twenty-dollar bill, twenty-five cents, two bits, two cents, two-dollar bill, twopence, two-spot, whim-wham, won, yard, yen |
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