CENT | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of cent in English centnoun [ C ] uk /sent/ us /sent/ Add to word list Add to word list A2 a unit of money worth 0.01 of a dollar, or a coin with this value: A call will cost you around 25 cents. On the foreign exchanges the pound rose two cents against the dollar.   wrangel/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages a unit of money worth 0.01 of a euro   asafta/ iStock / Getty Images Plus/GettyImages

• When he arrived in America he didn't have a cent.
• On the foreign exchanges the pound rose two cents against the dollar to $1.52.
• The accounts department is niggling me for ten cents they say I owe them.

North American money

• buck
• C-note
• dime
• dollar
• dollar bill
• dollar sign
• double eagle
• G, g
• greenback
• nickel
• penny
• quarter
• smacker
• toonie
• two bits

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Currencies (Definition of cent from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

cent | American Dictionary

centnoun [ C ] us /sent/ Add to word list Add to word list a unit of money worth 1/100 of a dollar: The newspaper costs 50 cents. (Definition of cent from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

cent | Business English

centnoun [ C ] uk /sent/ us Add to word list Add to word list MONEY a unit of money worth 0.01 of the main unit of many currencies including the US dollar and the euro, or a coin with this value: Directors announced a quarterly cash dividend of 78 cents per share. (Definition of cent from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of cent

cent The squatters gained titles to 10-25 cents (1acre is equal to 100 cents) of land together with the hut. From the Cambridge English Corpus Bones went for a quarter; slices of his heart and liver were cheaper at ten cents each. From the Cambridge English Corpus The narrow accent range (361 cents) is within a standard deviation of the mean falling pitch change produced by 1;0-1; 2 children. From the Cambridge English Corpus There is no authority to fix any wage above 40 cents an hour or to establish any workweek shorter than 40 hours. From the Cambridge English Corpus When adjacent brands are compared, the price difference is only 5 cents. From the Cambridge English Corpus The small denominations were still called pence and not cents as they did not represent decimal fractions. From the Cambridge English Corpus Dollars, dimes, cents and milles were often recorded by separation with dots or lines. From the Cambridge English Corpus They dropped to between 25 and 30 cents at the end of 1931 and were lowered to 20-25 cents in mid1932. From the Cambridge English Corpus I'm not paying eighty-five cents for a stinking soda. From the Cambridge English Corpus In 1882, as part of an overall revision, sugar tariffs were modified to a specific duty of five cents per kilogramme. From the Cambridge English Corpus Actually, the tempered fifth and fourth (700 and 500 cents) do not differ that much from their pure analogs (702 and 498 cents, correspondingly). From the Cambridge English Corpus The price discount for random-weight produce is particularly noticeable for strawberries (74 cents per pound), peppers ($1.18) and tomatoes ($1.01). From the Cambridge English Corpus Respondents with postgraduate degrees were willing to pay a median of 56 cents less than respondents without schooling beyond high school. From the Cambridge English Corpus Compared with the low-income group, those with annual household incomes above $75,000 would pay a median of 29 cents less. From the Cambridge English Corpus Each dollar of capital gains will increase surplus assets somewhere between 20 cents and a dollar. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of cent These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of cent?

Translations of cent

in Chinese (Traditional) 美分, 分幣, 歐分… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 美分, 分币, 欧分… See more in Spanish céntimo, centavo [masculine], céntimo [masculine]… See more in Portuguese centavo, cêntimo, centavo [masculine]… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian सेंट… See more セント（米国、オーストラリアなどの最小貨幣単位）, セント… See more sent, paranın küçük birimi, ABD dolarının yüzde biri… See more cent [masculine], centime… See more cèntim… See more cent… See more ஒரு டாலரின் 0.01 மதிப்புடைய பணத்தின் ஒரு அலகு அல்லது இதற்க்கு இணையான மதிப்பைக் கொண்ட நாணயம், ஒரு யூரோவின் 0.01 மதிப்புள்ள பணத்தின் ஒரு அலகு… See more सेंट, एक डॉलर का सौवाँ हिस्सा या सौवें हिस्से के बराबर का सिक्का, यूरो का सौवाँ हिस्सा… See more સેન્ટ… See more cent… See more cent… See more duit syiling… See more der Cent… See more cent [masculine], cent, 1/100… See more سینٹ (ایک ڈالر کا سوواں حصہ), سینٹ (یورو کا سوواں حصہ)… See more цент… See more సెంట్, డాలర్లో కానీ మరొక నాణెంలో కానీ 100వ భాగం విలువ ఉన్న నాడెం, యూరోలో 100 వ భాగం… See more সেন্ট, ডলারের ০.০১ শতাংশ মূল্যের একক বা ওই মূল্যের মুদ্রা, ইউরোর ০.০১ শতাংশ মূল্যের একক… See more cent… See more sen… See more เหรียญที่มีค่าหนึ่งในร้อยของหน่วยเงินตรา… See more đồng xu… See more cent… See more 센트… See more centesimo… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of cent

• percent
• ten-cent store
• percent positive
• per cent, at percent
• ten-cent store, at dime store
• ten-cent store, at five and dime
• not a red cent idiom

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