cent

plural cents · alternative cent.

1. businessA subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.

   It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.

   2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO

2. informalA small sum of money.

   He blew every last cent.

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   Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies.

   1990, Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, →ISBN, page 10

3. businessA subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.

   Synonyms: Eurocent

4. businessA coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).

   Synonyms: penny

5. entertainmentA hundredth of a semitone or half step.
6. nuclear physicsA unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.

   Synonyms: dollarcent

7. abbreviationAbbreviation of century.
8. abbreviationobsoleteexcept in per cent and cent percentAbbreviation of Latincentum (“one hundred”).

   And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.

   c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4

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   The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent.

   1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372

9. abbreviationAbbreviation of centigrade.
10. abbreviationAbbreviation of center.