metric hundredweight

Questions about metric hundredweight

What does metric hundredweight mean?

metric hundredweight means "a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms".

What is another word for metric hundredweight?

Close synonyms include hundredweight, doppelzentner, centner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is metric hundredweight a common word?

metric hundredweight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.