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Centime

noun

A fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo.

A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit. Synonyms: cent, penny.

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"Centime" Quotes from Famous Books

... could save a centime a day, I could buy a pair of stockings this time next year," thought Bebee, locking her shoes with her other treasures in her drawer the next morning, and taking her broom and pail to wash down her ...

— Bebee • Ouida

... for the French worker, who, in the midst of problems as grave, faces them with the light-heartedness of her nation. She has learned to the minutest fraction what can be extracted from every centime, and though she too must shiver with cold, and go half-fed and half-clothed, every to-morrow holds the promise of something better, and to-day is thus made more bearable. She shares too the conviction, which has come to be part of the general ...

— Prisoners of Poverty Abroad • Helen Campbell

Words linked to "Centime" : Burkina Faso franc, subunit, Congo franc, Niger franc, Cameroon franc, Ivory Coast franc, dirham, Senegalese franc, franc, Moroccan dirham, Algerian dinar, Luxembourg franc, coin, Chadian franc, Gabon franc, copper, new penny, dinar, Swiss franc, Togo franc, Cote d'Ivoire franc, Burundi franc, fractional monetary unit, Mali franc, Belgian franc, Rwanda franc