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LITTLE ROCK - Legislation that would lower the tax on a charity bingo game card from 1 cent to three-tenths of a cent was approved by the state Senate Thursday.

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  1. noun See Table at currency.
  2. Our Living Language
    The plural of cent is cent in some varieties of vernacular Southern English when preceded by a numeral: That costs eighty cent. The lack of the plural suffix -s in such constructions is also found with units of measurement like foot and pound. See Note at foot.

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  • The stakes are high, with the army estimating that reducing fuel consumption by just one per cent translates to about 6400 fewer soldiers in fuel convoys, a favourite target of insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • LITTLE ROCK - Legislation that would lower the tax on a charity bingo game card from 1 cent to three-tenths of a cent was approved by the state Senate Thursday. —  Arkansas News
  • If a company has revenues of £20bn, an improvement in performance of just half of 1 per cent translates into £100m.
  • Ten per cent translates to 12.5 million interactions requiring input from beyond the callcentre every day. —  VoIP News
  • King said he sees no choice but to pass a half-cent county-wide sales tax, not smaller tax rates of a quarter-cent or eighth-cent which have also been considered, and dedicate the full amount to fund the sheriff's department. —  Waynesville Daily Guide Homepage RSS
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, hundred, from Latin centum; see dekm̥ in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English cent, from Old French cent, French cent = Spanish ciento = Portuguese Italian cento, from Latin centum = Anglo-Saxon hund, hund-red, English hund-red, q. v.
 

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