centavo
五角星,五角大楼,五角钱,半数以上
Definitions
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plural cen·ta·vos [sen-tah-vohz; Spanish sen-tah-vaws]. /sɛnˈtɑ voʊz; Spanish sɛnˈtɑ vɔs/.
- : one 100th of the monetary units of various nations, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Mexico, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines.
Examples
He reveals that his monthly hazard pay amounts to just 300 Philippine pesos—a little over $6—and even then he has yet to receive a single centavo of it.
Nation has interesting monetary system based on peso with peso being worth 100 centavos and centavo being worth nothing.
At the bar, a laughing longshoreman pushed a five-centavo coin into the nickeled red juke box, pressed the "Bsame" button.
Out of pity he gave her a centavo, and in return she gave him an empty purse from which he could ask any sum of money he wanted.
The humbler children would gather about us, pleading, "Americano, gimme a centavo!"
I show them peons—ten-centavo men when we took them, and five-peso men when I showed them.
Buyo and cigars.The luxuries of the Filipinos are buyo8 and cigars—a cigar costing half a centavo, and a buyo much less.