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CENT

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cent substantiv

1. (o) sută (numai în expresia per cent);

ten per cent zece la sută, zece procente;

cent per cent a) sută la sută; b) (fam.) cămătar, zgripţuroi.

2. (amer.) cent (a suta parte dintr-un dolar);

I would not give a cent for it n-aş da nici o para chioară / nici un ban pentru asta / pe ea; nu face nici cât o ceapă degerată.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

At forty dollars that would be two cents a word.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The best trial results came from Brazil’s Niterói city, where dengue incidence reduced by 79 per cent and chikungunya by 75 per cent within a year of releasing mosquitoes laboratory-infected with Wolbachia — a common bacterium harmless to humans and the environment.

(Bacteria-infected mosquitoes slash dengue cases, SciDev.Net)

To fortune I am perfectly indifferent, and shall make no demand of that nature on your father, since I am well aware that it could not be complied with; and that one thousand pounds in the four per cents, which will not be yours till after your mother's decease, is all that you may ever be entitled to.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Two cents a word—twenty dollars a thousand; the check must be a hundred dollars.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Instead of two cents a word, ten words for a cent!

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Pay on acceptance and two cents a word—the newspapers had told the truth.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Five dollars for five thousand words, ten words for a cent—that particular thought took up its residence in his brain, and he could no more escape it than he could the "$3.85" under his eyelids.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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