Synonyms for cent
| Grammar : Noun |
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| Phonetic Transcription : sɛnt |
Définition of cent
Origin :- 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.
- As in red cent : noun insignificant value
- "We don't scare worth a cent," she snapped, with the virulence of a vixen.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- I gits half eat by that crazy skate, an' fired without a cent fer it.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- What he gits for fixin' the mill ain't nothin' to me—I don't git a cent on it.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Yes, Martin Wade might leave her but all his property must be left behind—every cent of it.
- Extract from : « Dust » by Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
- "Not a cent," says selfish Prudence; and I drop it from my fingers.
- Extract from : « Yankee Gypsies » by John Greenleaf Whittier
- I got nine dollars a week and earned every cent of it inhaling the atmosphere.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- He wouldn't take a cent from Jim, and he never does from poor people.
- Extract from : « Hetty's Strange History » by Anonymous
- Licorice Stick's encounters with "sperrits" had never brought him a cent.
- Extract from : « Pee-wee Harris » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- He works her like a dog, hires her out and takes every cent she earns.
- Extract from : « Southern Lights and Shadows » by Various
- By the day that we were to leave we owed him every cent we had.
- Extract from : « Goodbye, Dead Man! » by Tom W. Harris
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