centime
pronunciation
How to pronounce centime in British English:
UK ['sɑ:nti:m]
How to pronounce centime in American English:
US ['sɑntim]
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- 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
- a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
Word Origin
- centime (n.)
- 1801, from French centime, from cent (see centi-) on analogy of décime (pars).
Example
- 1. We should make every centime count .
- 2. But sooner or later the centime will drop . You cannot defy economics for long .
- 3. So far investors have been indulgent of france ; indeed , long-term interest rates have fallen a bit . But sooner or later the centime will drop .