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Cent

/sent/
A cent is a unit of currency that equals one-hundredth of a basic monetary unit, such as the US dollar.

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"He said it was seventy-five cents."

Two and a half cents."

'Twenty per cent rise for the married men?' asks Neuner.

Etymology:

etymology
The word cent comes from the Latin centum, meaning hundred. It entered English as a term for a fractional unit of currency in the late 17th century.

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