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centime

cen·time

US/ˈsɛˌntaɪm/ uncommon

noun

1.

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

2.

a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

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Origin

Borrowed from French centime. By surface analysis, cent- + -ime. Doublet of centim, centimo, and santim.

Phrases

  • Algerian centime
  • Haitian centime

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