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n. - A fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile.

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Usage examples (7)
  • Di fatto, il sistema è congegnato in modo da favorire l'evasore, a scapito di chi le tasse le paga, tutte, fino all'ultimo centesimo.
  • Greece, drachm and lepta; in Roumania, lei and bani: in Servia, dinar and para; in Spain, peseta and centesimo; but in all cases the value is the same.
  • The units in the different States are, it is true, called by different names; as in France, Belgium and Switzerland, franc and centime; in Italy, lira and centesimo; in
  • I will give two sous for the original four, and not a centesimo more.
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