Meaning & use
Centavo
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A small monetary unit used in several Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, equal to one hundredth of the main currency unit, such as the peso or real.
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The vending machine wouldn't accept coins worth fewer than fifty centavos.
Prices in the local market were often quoted down to the last centavo.
A note on using this word
Centavo comes from the Spanish and Portuguese word for 'hundredth,' paralleling the English 'cent' in structure and meaning.
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