Definitions for cents

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cents cent

Spelling: [sent]

IPA: /sɛnt/

Cents is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in cents (censt).

Definitions for cents

noun

1. a bronze coin of the U.S., the 100th part of a U.S. dollar: made of steel during part of 1943. Symbol: ¢.
2. the 100th part of the monetary units of various other nations, including Australia, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Brunei, Canada, Ethiopia, Fiji, Guyana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Kenya, Liberia, Mauritius, New Zealand, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, the Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, and Uganda.
3. a monetary unit of certain European Union countries, the 100th part of a euro.
4. sen3 .

Origin of cents

1325-75; Middle English Latin centēsimus hundredth (by shortening), equivalent to cent(um) 100 (see hundred) + -ēsimus ordinal suffix

Examples for cents

If you enclose 15 cents I will also prepay all express charges.

Satyarthi explains that these 60 million kids work for 200 days in a year, earning about 25 cents a day.

Price, 75 cents per Number; $9.00 per Annum, postage prepaid.

At last we were coming to the end—to that last figure in dollars and cents.

It costs a $1.80 for the initial connection, and then 31 cents every minute thereafter.

Maybe the Central Park Five deserved 10 times as much money as they got, or 10 cents on the dollar.

It is inaccurate, for instance, to use 63¢ as the basis for the normal differential.

It was then shipped to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic, and sold for 50 cents on the dollar.

As a matter of dollars and cents, America in the short term may be able to afford disability and food stamps.

Rates fell in one year from $1.80 to 25 cents per hundred pounds.