centime

Plural: centimes

Noun

• A monetary unit, one-hundredth of a franc or other currency.
• 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
• a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
• A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
• A coin having face value of one centime.

Examples

• Losing even a single CENTIME’s worth of points could mean defeat in a close Scrabble game.

Synonyms

cent, penny