1
: a monetary unit equal to ¹/₁₀₀ of a basic unit of value (such as dollar, euro, rand) see birr, dollar, euro, leone, lilangeni, nakfa, rand, rupee, shilling at Money Table
2
: a coin, token, or note representing one cent
3
: the fen of the People's Republic of China
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Noun
A dime is worth 10 cents.
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Noun
The restaurant chain reported adjusted earnings of 74 cents per share, below the 80 cents per share that analysts surveyed by LSEG were expecting for the quarter.
—Pia Singh,sean Conlon, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2025
That's right, McDonald's will offer 50-cent Double Cheeseburgers on Thursday, September 18 to celebrate National Cheeseburger Day.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
Polling has shown that 54% of voters across Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco and San Mateo counties would vote yes on a half-cent sales tax.
—Kate Talerico, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025
In the past decade, the over-all employment rate for adults with disabilities has risen from seventeen per cent to nearly twenty-three per cent, with a big jump since 2020.
—E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Cent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cent. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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