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half cent
noun
- a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of half cent1
An Americanism dating back to 1780–90
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Example Sentences
Experience demonstrates that anything more than this one-half cent per pound charged on cotton, entails more loss than gain.
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Yet a half cent will scarcely pay freight for more than one hundred miles.
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Or forty postmarks for a half-cent of any date earlier than 1857.
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Business for that day was placed at 555,000 bags, closing prices being about one-half cent lower.
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I hear that in Montreal it was found necessary to use cent stamps to prepay the half cent rate.
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