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FRACTIONAL MONETARY UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monetary unit that is valued at a fraction (usually one hundredth) of the basic monetary unit
Synonyms:
fractional monetary unit; subunit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("fractional monetary unit" is a kind of...):
monetary unit (a unit of money)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fractional monetary unit"):
cent (a fractional monetary unit of several countries)
centesimo (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile)
centimo (a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain)
centavo (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)
centime (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo)
fils (a fractional monetary unit in Bahrain and Iraq and Jordan and Kuwait; equal to one thousandth of a dinar)
sen (a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel)
ore (a monetary subunit in Denmark and Norway and Sweden; 100 ore equal 1 krona)
piaster; piastre (a fractional monetary unit in Egypt and Lebanon and Sudan and Syria)
penny (a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound)
paisa (a fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan)
