hundredweight
noun
hun·dred·weight
ˈhən-drəd-ˌwāt 
-dərd-ˌwāt
plural hundredweight or hundredweights
1
: a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds
called also short hundredweight
see Weights and Measures Table2
British
: a unit of weight equal to 112 pounds
called also long hundredweight
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The declines were partially offset by a 4.6 percent increase in LTL revenue per hundredweight.
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
But a key measure of pricing strength, known in the sector as average revenue per hundredweight excluding fuel surcharges, jumped 8.9% from a year earlier and expanded from the second quarter, signaling carriers are getting higher prices even as freight volumes retreat.
—Paul Berger, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
Barstow’s Longview Farm In the early 2000s, when the milk market was crashing, the farm was getting $12 per 100 pounds of milk when the break even was about $22 per hundredweight.
—Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
However, sweet corn tends to come from Washington state, with 15.4 million hundredweight, then Minnesota with approximately 15.3 million, before dropping down to Wisconsin with about 10 million.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
But the best repository for the history of the Revolution was the Hoover Institution, which was always inviting me to come and do some more work there, and sending photocopies of materials by the hundredweight.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
Revenue per hundredweight, a measure of pricing strength, rose 2.3% in August from the previous year, excluding fuel surcharges.
—Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
Front-month rough rice futures on the CME traded as high as 23.565 cents per hundredweight Friday before giving up some of that gain in recent sessions.
—Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 10 June 2020
In the 2019 legislative session, Gov. Larry Hogan devoted $1.5 million to cover one year’s worth of premiums for farmers that wanted to buy into the program at the highest level — $9.50 per hundredweight of milk, according to Connelly.
—Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Oct. 2019
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Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
But a key measure of pricing strength, known in the sector as average revenue per hundredweight excluding fuel surcharges, jumped 8.9% from a year earlier and expanded from the second quarter, signaling carriers are getting higher prices even as freight volumes retreat.
—Paul Berger, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
Barstow’s Longview Farm In the early 2000s, when the milk market was crashing, the farm was getting $12 per 100 pounds of milk when the break even was about $22 per hundredweight.
—Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
However, sweet corn tends to come from Washington state, with 15.4 million hundredweight, then Minnesota with approximately 15.3 million, before dropping down to Wisconsin with about 10 million.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
But the best repository for the history of the Revolution was the Hoover Institution, which was always inviting me to come and do some more work there, and sending photocopies of materials by the hundredweight.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020
Revenue per hundredweight, a measure of pricing strength, rose 2.3% in August from the previous year, excluding fuel surcharges.
—Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020
Front-month rough rice futures on the CME traded as high as 23.565 cents per hundredweight Friday before giving up some of that gain in recent sessions.
—Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 10 June 2020
In the 2019 legislative session, Gov. Larry Hogan devoted $1.5 million to cover one year’s worth of premiums for farmers that wanted to buy into the program at the highest level — $9.50 per hundredweight of milk, according to Connelly.
—Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Oct. 2019
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hundredweight
noun
hun·dred·weight
ˈhən-drə-ˌdwāt
-dər-ˌdwāt
plural hundredweight or hundredweights
1
: a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds (about 45.4 kilograms)
called also short hundredweight
see measure2
British
: a unit of weight equal to 112 pounds (about 50.8 kilograms)
called also long hundredweight
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