/ sent; NAmE / noun
( abbr. 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
—see also per cent , red cent
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IDIOMS
- put in your two cents' worth
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (in the sense a hundred ): from French cent , Italian cento , or Latin centum hundred.