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cent 
n. a bronze coin valued at one hundredth part of a Canadian dollar, adopted officially as Canadian currency in 1858; also, the value of this coin.
- 1825 [. . . now because the New York State counts in dollars and cents, we, forsooth, you choose to think should follow their example.]
- 1853 And be it enacted, that the denominations of money in the Currency of this Province, shall be pounds, dollars, shillings, pence, cents, and mills: the pound, shilling and penny shall have, respectively, the same proportionate values as they now have, the dollar shall be one-fourth of a pound, the cent shall be one-hundredth and the mill one-tenth of a cent.
- 1963 . . . the currency reformers in Canada already strongly favoured the system which has since been adopted, namely a special silver and copper coinage for North America, expressed in the American decimal system of dollars and cents.
- 1825 [. . . now because the New York State counts in dollars and cents, we, forsooth, you choose to think should follow their example.]