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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cent
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
50%/100 per cent etc cotton
▪ These lightweight trousers are made from 100% cotton.
ten pence/50-cent etc piece
▪ Have you change for a 50-cent piece?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
increase
▪ When union reps sought an 8-cent increase, they and hundreds of other workers were sacked.
▪ When the petrol situation started to worsen earlier this week the site saw a 300 per cent increase in traffic.
▪ The bank's operating margin was below the 20.8 per cent increase registered in September.
▪ Tecan, the biotechnology group, was up 2.9 per cent after announcing a 42 per cent increase in sales in 2000.
▪ Presumably that's to help counter the added heat-generation of the 128 per cent increase in the number of transistors.
▪ And Halfords has reported a 500 per cent increase in sales of petrol cans.
stake
▪ It has an 8 per cent stake, and has admitted working with Gazprom.
▪ The company had held a 24 per cent stake in the consortium.
■ VERB
account
▪ The gender split has also narrowed, with females accounting for 46 per cent of Internet users.
charge
▪ Extracted hazardous materials Crec charges its clients 82 cents per kilogram to dismantle computers in a factory once used to manufacture them.
▪ If you sink into the red, it will charge 10 per cent.
▪ For example, on a £75,000 loan, six months of interest charged at 6 per cent is more than £2,000.
fall
▪ They find that the number of children in poverty has fallen by 35.5 per cent.
▪ February unleaded gasoline fell 0. 46 cent to 58. 19 cents a gallon.
▪ The average shortfall of income beneath the poverty line for poor children has also fallen by 31.7 per cent.
▪ Its shares fell 34 per cent to 480p after the group warned that second-half margins had slipped.
▪ Sakura Bank fell 3.4 per cent to Y648.
▪ The debt ratio fell to 65.9 per cent, down 19.4 percentage points from 85.3 per cent last year.
▪ Peacock fell 9 per cent to 95p, while New Look ended the day more than 8 per cent lower at 72p.
▪ Applications for the priesthood fell by 85 per cent.
grow
▪ Boots the Opticians grew 0.8 per cent in the period, with like-for-like sales up 1.2 per cent.
▪ Another five years on, it is approaching £10m, and grew by 65 per cent over the last year.
▪ Woolwich, another mutual convert, also offers savers the chance to let their money grow at 0.5 per cent each year.
▪ If they grow by 4.6 per cent, you will receive £1 for every 85p invested.
▪ Like-for-like sales for the group for the nine weeks to December 30 grew by 4.5 per cent.
pay
▪ Savers who have made deposits between £3,000 and £5,999 over the past two years are paid 6.35 per cent.
▪ Beginning in the second year you pay three per cent interest on your mortgage.
▪ Bonds go into a monthly prize draw paying 4.25 per cent overall.
▪ I mentioned money because I was reminded of how we had a boy living here once we never paid a red cent.
▪ His current account pays 0.01 per cent and his savings account pays marginally more than 2 per cent.
▪ All three pay 6.85 per cent, offer instant access, and welcome deposits from £1.
▪ It will then be moved to the Liquid Gold account paying just 2 per cent.
rise
▪ And even if that target is met, global emissions will still rise to 30 per cent above 1990 levels by 2010.
▪ February gasoline rose 0. 20 cent 55. 41 cents a gallon.
▪ The Kosdaq index rose 5.7 per cent and the benchmark Kospi index gained 4.6 per cent to 587.87.
▪ Meanwhile credit investment rose by 23 per cent.
▪ Van sales rose by 39 per cent year on year to 14,952 vehicles.
▪ Rates rise to 4.5 per cent for 90 days and to 4.75 per cent for a year.
▪ GlaxoSmithKline offered some support as it rose 2.4 per cent after Goldman Sachs provided some positive comments about the stock.
▪ Total sales rose by 3.2 per cent.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
$100/50 cents etc a clip
not one red cent
▪ Carter said she wouldn't pay one red cent of her rent until the landlord fixed her roof.
two cents (worth)
▪ Just for my own two cents worth, even Martin Luther King said the source of all wealth is labor.
▪ One hundred thousand copies at two cents a sheet.
▪ Results in the most recent quarter were two cents below the consensus from analysts surveyed by First Call.
▪ Walter had already put in his two cents worth.
▪ We charged a penny for admission and two cents a cup for Kool-Aid.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cent

Cent \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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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cent

late 14c., from Latin centum "hundred" (see hundred). Middle English meaning was "one hundred," but it shifted 17c. to "hundredth part" under influence of percent. Chosen in this sense in 1786 as a name for a U.S. currency unit by Continental Congress. The word first was suggested by Robert Morris in 1782 under a different currency plan. Before the cent, Revolutionary and colonial dollars were reckoned in ninetieths, based on the exchange rate of Pennsylvania money and Spanish coin.

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Wiktionary
cent

abbr. century n. 1 (label en money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. 2 (label en informal) A small sum of money. 3 (label en money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro. 4 (label en money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses). 5 (label en music) A hundredth of a half step.

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WordNet
cent

  1. n. a fractional monetary unit of several countries

  2. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: penny, centime]

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Cent

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Cent (currency)

In many national currencies, the cent, commonly represented by the cent sign (a minuscule letter "c" crossed by a diagonal stroke or a vertical line: ¢; or a simple "c") is a monetary unit that equals of the basic monetary unit. Etymologically, the word cent derives from the Latin word "centum" meaning hundred. Cent also refers to a coin worth one cent.

In the United States and Canada, the 1¢ coin is generally known by the nickname penny, alluding to the British coin and unit of that name. In Ireland the 1c coin is also sometimes known as a penny in reference to the Irish penny, worth of the Irish pound that was replaced by the euro in 2002.

Cent (music)

The cent is a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals. Twelve-tone equal temperament divides the octave into 12 semitones of 100 cents each. Typically, cents are used to express small intervals, or to compare the sizes of comparable intervals in different tuning systems, and in fact the interval of one cent is too small to be heard between successive notes.

Alexander J. Ellis based the measure on the acoustic logarithms decimal semitone system developed by Gaspard de Prony in the 1830s, at Robert Holford Macdowell Bosanquet's suggestion. Ellis made extensive measurements of musical instruments from around the world, using cents extensively to report and compare the scales employed, and further described and employed the system in his 1875 edition of Hermann von Helmholtz's On the Sensations of Tone. It has become the standard method of representing and comparing musical pitches and intervals.

Usage examples of "cent".

Of that great, tempering, benign shadow over the continent, tempering its heat, giving shelter from its cold, restraining the waters, there is left about 65 per cent in acreage and not more than one-half the merchantable timber--five hundred million acres gone in a century and a half.

Chemists have determined that the Agrimony possesses a particular volatile oil, and yields nearly five per cent.

You can take Madame Alp home with you for only one-fifteenth of a cent per pound!

I heard you say today you bought that Cowper alveolar drill of yours for fifty cents at an auction of the instruments of your old professor.

McWatt was deeply impressed with Milo, who, to the amusement of Corporal Snark, his mess sergeant, was already buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents.

Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents.

His mission was silly, Yossarian felt, since it was common knowledge that Milo bought his eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sold them to the mess halls in his syndicate for five cents apiece.

I sell them to me and a profit of two and three quarter cents apiece when I buy them back from me.

I can make a profit buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents apiece.

Sicily for one cent apiece and transfer them to Malta secretly at four and a half cents apiece in order to get the price of eggs up to seven cents apiece when people come to Malta looking for them.

Pianosa under an assumed name so that Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn can buy them up from me under their assumed names at four cents apiece and sell them back to me the next day for the syndicate at five cents apiece.

I make a profit of three and a half cents apiece, and everybody comes out ahead.

There had never been such an acrossthe-media-board free advertising campaign in the history of newspaper, radio and television and it cost the promoters of the Aquarian conspiracy, NATO and the Club of Rome not one red cent.

Christian Socialists of the old Carr faction, who constitute a minority of far less than one per cent of the Socialist Party of the United States, have not only conceded the existence of an atheistic propaganda within the ranks, but have attacked it and utterly failed to suppress it.

But having started himself precipitately, he took rank among independent incomes, as they are called, only to take fright at the perils of starvation besetting one who has been tempted to abandon the source of fifty per cent.