A cent is a very small unit of money. In the US, one cent is the same thing as one penny.
A hundred;
Noun
a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
Noun
a fractional monetary unit of several countries
n.
A hundred; as, ten per cent, the proportion of ten parts in a
hundred.
n.
A United States coin, the hundredth part of a dollar,
formerly made of copper, now of copper, tin, and zinc.
n.
An old game at cards, supposed to be like piquet; -- so
called because 100 points won the game.
Cent
A hundred;
Usage Examples
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
It's really cool when a guy tips 20 per cent quickly and effortlessly so that when the check comes, he opens it and signs his name and done.
When certain bootleg companies started off and they would take maybe ten per cent of whatever they got and help fuel new bands, which I'm cool with, I think that's a good idea. Most of the record companies are not doing that.
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.
About 20 per cent of the population believe themselves to have a food allergy and only about five per cent actually do.
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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Other Usage ExamplesI have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.
Ninety-eight per cent of laughter is nothing to do with jokes, which do not deserve to bear the weight of all the funny stuff in the world.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
I have no qualms about saying I am more confident in the medical treatment in America. The breast cancer survival rate is 20 per cent higher than in the UK.
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the top - C-level jobs, board seats - tops out at fifteen, sixteen per cent.
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