1. A fractional monetary unit of several countries
   "He found a few cents in his pocket"
    
2. A coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
   "The price was 99 cents";
   - penny, centime

Sounds like: scent, sent

Derived forms: cents

Type of: coin, fractional monetary unit, rupee, Sri Lanka rupee, subunit

Part of: birr, bob [UK, archaic, informal], British shilling, dollar, Dutch florin, florin, guilder, gulden, leone, lilangeni, Mauritian rupee, rand, rupee, Seychelles rupee, shilling

Encyclopedia: Cent