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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation hundredweight

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  • abbreviation hundredweight

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  • noun a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
  • noun a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds

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Examples

  • This legally mandated "floor price" should be at least $17.50 per cwt (a cwt is the standard measure for milk producers).

    Leslie Hatfield: For Dairy Farmers, the Depression is Here. Is Industrial Agriculture to Blame? 2009

  • This legally mandated "floor price" should be at least $17.50 per cwt (a cwt is the standard measure for milk producers).

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • This "cwt" is not 100 pounds but 112 pounds, one twentieth of the English ton (our long ton) of 2,240 pounds.

    All About Coffee 1909

  • Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt").

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt").

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt").

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt").

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2009

  • How often do you see proper abbreviations, like cwt, these days?

    Blatancy Award Dungeekin 2009

  • It tells us that in two different things – 1 quarter of corn and x cwt. of iron, there exists in equal quantities something common to both.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2010

  • It tells us that in two different things – 1 quarter of corn and x cwt. of iron, there exists in equal quantities something common to both.

    skzbrust: Capital Volume 1 Part 1 Chapter 1 Section 1 Post 2 skzbrust 2010

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