English > centavo: 1 sense > noun 1, quantity| 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 Portugal. |
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| Part of | Cape Verde escudo, escudo | The basic unit of money on Cape Verde |
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| Colombian peso, peso | The basic unit of money in Colombia |
| Cuban peso, peso | The basic unit of money in Cuba |
| Dominican peso, peso | The basic unit of money in the Dominican Republic |
| Guinea-Bissau peso, peso | The basic unit of money in Guinea-Bissau |
| Mexican peso, peso | The basic unit of money in Mexico |
| Philippine peso, peso | The basic unit of money in the Philippines |
| Portuguese escudo, escudo | formerly the basic monetary unit of Portugal |
| Uruguayan peso, peso | The basic unit of money in Uruguay |
| austral | The basic unit of money in Argentina |
| boliviano | The basic unit of money in Bolivia |
| colon, El Salvadoran colon | The basic unit of money in El Salvador |
| cordoba | The basic unit of money in Nicaragua |
| dobra | The basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe |
| lempira | The basic unit of money in Honduras |
| metical | The basic unit of money in Mozambique |
| quetzal | The basic unit of money in Guatemala |
| real | The basic unit of money in Brazil |
| sucre | The basic unit of money in Ecuador |
| Broader | fractional monetary unit, subunit | A monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit |
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| Spanish | centavo |
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| Catalan | centau |
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