| 词汇 | hundredweight |
| 释义 | hundredweight noun[ C ] uk /ˈhʌn.drəd.weɪt/ us /ˈhʌn.drəd.weɪt/pluralhundredweight(written abbreviationcwt) a measure of weight equal to 50.80 kilograms in Britain or 45.36 kilograms in the US: 英担（重量单位，在英国相当于50.80公斤，在美国等于45.36公斤） hundredweight ofWe ordered a hundredweight of coal.我们订购了一英担的煤。 Measurements of weight & mass -pounder atomic mass BMI body mass index bulk density carat centigram ct G, g gm kilogram lb microgram milligram ounce oz pound st talent ton hundredweight | Business Englishhundredweight noun[ C ] MEASURESuk /ˈhʌndrədweɪt/uspluralhundredweight(abbreviationcwt) (alsolong hundredweight) in British measurements, a measure of weight equal to 112 pounds or approximately 50.8 kilograms: One long ton is equal to 20 long hundredweight. (alsoshort hundredweight) in US and Canadian measurements, a measure of weight equal to 100 pounds or 45.36 kilograms: Milk prices rose to $21.90 per hundredweight. Examples of hundredweighthundredweight The paper used for each issue amounts on average to 2.4 hundredweight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He lived in the next yard, and received 12 strokes of the birch for stealing half a hundredweight of coal. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The lorry crept up on us in weight-carrying almost hundredweight by hundredweight, inch by inch in width, foot by foot in length, almost unnoticed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Friesian bullocks are fetching only £6 and £7 a hundredweight because no one can afford to feed them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Live cattle were then £20 and over a live hundredweight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It takes a very strong man to carry a hundredweight of coal up two or three flights of stairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The present average pithead price of group 2 house coal is £1·42 a hundredweight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Because of consumer protection legislation logs would have to be weighed and sold by the hundredweight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It would meet the case of a great many small men who deal in quarter and half-hundredweights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The paper used weighed 3½ hundredweights, the greater part of which was the weight of manilla covers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the next three months we are aiming at a target price of £21 per live hundredweight to begin with, moving up to £23 per live hundredweight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that on 1,000,000 acres 250,000 head of store cattle, of roughly six to seven hundredweight live weight, could be carried. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In paragraph 6(1) we are taking powers to disregard anything less than a quarter of a hundredweight in assessing a claim. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our imports of poultry for the first nine months of 1946 were 100,588 hundredweights. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He had many hundredweights of beans and so on, but could not sell them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of hundredweight These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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