Metric Hundredweight (Noun)
Meaning
A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- The company exported 50 metric hundredweight of grain to neighboring countries every month.
- She struggled to lift even one metric hundredweight of luggage off the baggage claim carousel.
- Farmers are now selling their crops in units of metric hundredweight instead of the old system.
- After recalculating, we determined the truck's cargo was short by two metric hundredweight of raw materials.
- Please deliver five metric hundredweight of topsoil to our garden center by Friday afternoon.