1. A monetary unit equal to one hundredth of various Latin American currencies, including the peso and escudo
   "He found a few centavo coins in his pocket from his trip to Mexico"

Derived forms: centavos

Type of: fractional monetary unit, subunit

Part of: austral, boliviano, Cape Verde escudo, Colombian peso, colón, cordoba, Cuban peso, dobra, Dominican peso, El Salvadoran colón, escudo, lempira, metical, Mexican peso, peso, Philippine peso, Portuguese escudo, quetzal, real[2], sucre, Uruguayan peso

Encyclopedia: Centavo