Слово англійською: cent
Іменник
Переклад cent українською: цент (0,01 долара), сто, сотня, per ~ — процент, відсоток, eight per ~ — вісім процентів, to pay to the last ~ — заплатити усе до останньої копійки
Детальний опис
cent
noun /sent/
(abbreviation c, ct)
- a coin and unit of money worth 1% of the main unit of money in many countries, for example of the US dollar or of the euro
- A one-minute phone call to the UK cost 10 cents.
- The price of diesel was increased by 17 cents per litre.
- The $300 he'd spent on a ticket was worth every cent.
see also per cent, red centHomophones cent | scent | sentcent scent sent
/sent/
- cent noun
- Not one cent of their profits goes to charity.
- scent noun
- The delicious scent of freshly baked bread was wafting from the kitchen.
- scent verb
- The home side increase the pressure on them as they scent weakness.
- sent noun (past tense, past participle of send)
- I sent her a thank you letter.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from French cent, Italian cento, or Latin centum ‘hundred’.
Idioms put in your two cents’ worth (North American English) (British English put in your two pennyworth, put in your two penn’orth)
- (informal) to give your opinion about something, even if other people do not want to hear itTopics Opinion and argumentc2