Usually means: One hundredth of a dollar.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cent, cent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cent, cent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cent, cent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cent, cent-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cent, cent, cent: Wordnik
  7. cent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cent, cent, cent-: Wiktionary
  9. cent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cent, cent, cent, cent-: Dictionary.com
  13. cent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cent (U.S. coin), Cent (United States coin), Cent (area), Cent (currency), Cent (music), Cent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cent: Rhymezone
  19. Cent, cent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CENT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. cent, cent-: MyWord.info
  23. cent: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. cent: Free Dictionary
  25. cent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. cent, cent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. cent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Cent: Numismatic Dictionary
  3. cent-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Cent-, Cent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cent-, cent: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. cent, cent, cent: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. CENT: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. cent: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cent: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cent: Coin Collecting
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cent)

noun:  (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
noun:  (informal) A small sum of money.
noun:  (money) A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
noun:  (money) A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
noun:  (music) A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
noun:  (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
noun:  Abbreviation of century. [A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.]
noun:  (obsolete, except in per cent and cent percent) Abbreviation of centum. One hundred. [(Sanskrit and other Indian philology) Satakam, set of one hundred verses connected by the same metre or topic.]
noun:  Abbreviation of centigrade. [(uncountable) A centigrade temperature scale having the freezing point of water defined as 0° and its boiling point defined as 100° at standard atmospheric pressure. Although formally known as the Celsius scale since 1948, centigrade is still the more commonly found term.]
noun:  Abbreviation of center. [The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.]

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