English to French Meaning of centime - centime

Centime :

centime

noun

Centime :: centimeCentimes :: centimes

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Definitions of centime in English

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

Examples of centime in English

(1) The company's advisers, BNP Paribas and Rothschild, will earn every centime of their fees if they can deliver a successful stock market launch for this lumbering behemoth.(2) I was going to list them all for your benefit, but it would takes to long and cost too many centimes at this cybercafe.(3) And they have the nerve to charge 35 centimes per minute to wait on hold for half an hour for the privilege of speaking to someone who doesn't want to help you, if you manage to eventually get through.(4) The shares gained 20 centimes , or 0.4%, to 52.20 Swiss francs as of 10.08 am in Zurich.(5) Yet this same day, my local Pressing, where I bring my sumptuous linen sheets to be cleaned (which I bought by being cheap, and bargained for at a flea market), mistakenly overcharged me 60 centimes , which I didn't discover until I got home.(6) I gave the waiter my usual 10%, which happened to be 70 centimes .(7) The bank had put a hold on the money so they could float it a few extra days and make a few extra centimes on it.(8) On September 4, the government offered to cut fuel tax by about half the 50 centimes per litre (six US cents) demanded by the unions.(9) Although I don't understand why places price things like 3.86 ├ö├®┬╝ or 7.51 ├ö├®┬╝├ö├ç┬¬ I know they're sold by weight, but can't they just add or subtract a couple of centimes ?(10) Go into just about every boulangerie in France nowadays and a standard baguette costs 80 centimes .(11) Most caffÔö£┬┐s charge perhaps 80 centimes for an espresso at the counter, whereas here it almost three times the price.(12) Just last week, he made the tourist promotion people upset by suggesting that the government reduce the subsidy it gives them to a mere 30 centimes .

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Synonyms

Noun

1. cent ::

cent

2. penny ::

penny

Different Forms

centime, centimes

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