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    CENTAVO

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugalplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

    Hypernyms ("centavo" is a kind of...):

    fractional monetary unit; subunit (a monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit)

    Holonyms ("centavo" is a part of...):

    sucre (the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos)

    quetzal (the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos)

    peso; Uruguayan peso (the basic unit of money in Uruguay; equal to 100 centesimos)

    peso; Philippine peso (the basic unit of money in the Philippines; equal to 100 centavos)

    Mexican peso; peso (the basic unit of money in Mexico; equal to 100 centavos)

    Guinea-Bissau peso; peso (the basic unit of money in Guinea-Bissau; equal to 100 centavos)

    Dominican peso; peso (the basic unit of money in the Dominican Republic; equal to 100 centavos)

    Cuban peso; peso (the basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos)

    Colombian peso; peso (the basic unit of money in Colombia; equal to 100 centavos)

    cordoba (the basic unit of money in Nicaragua; equal to 100 centavos)

    boliviano (the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos)

    metical (the basic unit of money in Mozambique; equal to 100 centavos)

    lempira (the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos)

    escudo; Portuguese escudo (formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal; equal to 100 centavo)

    Cape Verde escudo; escudo (the basic unit of money on Cape Verde; equal to 100 centavos)

    dobra (the basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe)

    real (the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos)

    colon; El Salvadoran colon (the basic unit of money in El Salvador; equal to 100 centavos)

    austral (the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos)

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