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Variant of percent

adverb, adjective

per hundred; in, to, or for every hundred: symbol, %: a 20 percent rate means 20 in every 100

also per cent or Now Rareper cent.

noun

a hundredth part
Informal percentage
Brit. securities bearing regular interest of a (stated) percentage: the four percents

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