{
    "term": "cent",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a coin and unit of money worth 1% of the main unit of money in many countries, for example of the US dollar or of the euro",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A one-minute phone call to the UK cost 10 cents."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The price of diesel was increased by 17 cents per litre."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The $300 he'd spent on a ticket was worth every cent."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Directors recommended a dividend of 60 cents per share."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Subscribers pay 99 cents a song."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company offered its creditors 30 cents on the dollar (= 30 cents for every dollar it owed them)."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to give your opinion about something, even if other people do not want to hear it",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sent/",
                "audio": "ce/cent/cent__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/sent/",
                "audio": "ce/cent/cent__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘a hundred’): from French cent, Italian cento, or Latin centum ‘hundred’."
}