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percent

or per cent

[ per-sent ]

noun

  1. Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
  2. British. stocks, bonds, etc., that bear an indicated rate of interest.


adjective

  1. figured or expressed on the basis of a rate or proportion per hundred (used in combination with a number in expressing rates of interest, proportions, etc.): : %

    to get three percent interest.

percent

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  1. One part in a hundred. For example, 62 percent (also written 62%) means 62 parts out of 100.

percent

  1. A fraction expressed as a number of hundredths. Twelve percent of a quantity, for example, is twelve one-hundredths of it. Twelve percent may also be written 12%.
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Confusables Note

In the senses “rate or proportion per hundred” and “proportion in general” percent and percentage are frequently interchangeable. With a preceding number, only percent occurs ( a 16 percent decline ); with no preceding number, either occurs, but percentage is much more common: a certain percentage (or percent ) of the land.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·Գa adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of percent1

First recorded in 1560–70; short for Medieval Latin per centum “by the hundred”; per, cent
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“Even though Arcadia was widely unaffected in terms of losing homes, we had 66 percent of our department on staff for 36 to 48 hours taking care of the east end,” he said.

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It helped the Trump team make up for Kamala Harris’s mammoth financial advantage and narrow its dollars and focus on the roughly 14 percent of battleground-state voters it had identified as swayable.

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It relies on robust sales of alcoholic drinks, which have significantly higher profit margins than food, and derives 40% percent of its revenue from the beverage side.

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Starting Tuesday, Los Angeles County residents will see a quarter percent sales tax increase on their purchases due to a voter approved measure that supports county-run homeless services.

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He said that he is so popular, more popular than any president in history — in the high 70 percent — that it might make sense.

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