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Definition of "centime" [cen•time]

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "centime" in a sentence
  • "France; they have a small coin there which they call a centime, and these go five to the cent or there-about."
  • "A centime is the hundredth of a franc, and fifty centimes is ten cents."
  • "If you paid taxes in either Italy or France, you were indeed "charged a centime" for your health care -- several, in fact, and likely more than you would have paid for comparable care in a free-market system."