percent
percent
Definition
per·cent (pər sent′)
adverb, adjective
per hundred; in, to, or for every hundred: symbol, % a 20 percent rate means 20 in every 100
Etymology: < It per cento < L per centum
noun
- a hundredth part
- Informal percentage
- Brit. securities bearing regular interest of a (stated) percentage the four percents
percent
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- rise: Group sales rose 8 percent to £ 5.8 billion, thanks mainly to a 13 percent rise in sales at Waitrose.
Adjective modifier
- ninety-five: Ninety-five percent of the students reported that they liked working with partners at the computers.
- eighty-five: Peta said, " Eighty-five percent of the fur industry's skins come from animals living captive on fur factory farms.
- fifty-five: Fifty-five percent had at least one lucid dream and two had their first-ever lucid dream this way.
- ninety-nine: Ninety-nine percent of those will be released eventually, but if nothing is done to curb the turnaround, the battle will never end.
- cts: Percent per year status country-of-birth fixed that opposition would of cts percent.
- thirty-five: Thirty-five percent of Fort Davis's land is not used for training.
Modifies a noun
- stake: Monsanto holds a 26 percent stake in Mahyco, according to published reports.
- enrollment: The estimated effect of immigrants the percent enrollment of.
Noun used with modifier
- forty: Forty percent of its staff has been laid off.
- ninety-nine: We know that nonhuman primates share up to ninety-nine percent of their DNA with humans.
- cwosn: To participate business establishments in the poor and cwosn percent would.
- ninety-six: RESULTS: Ninety-six percent of samples yielded sufficient DNA for PCR amplification.
- Twenty-six: Twenty-six percent reported theft of proprietary information ( an increase of 8 % over 1998 ).
- seventy-four: Seventy-four percent of Individual Loan clients are women and 80 % have family incomes of less than $ 300 per month.
Preposition: of
- respondent: The poll showed that 59 percent of respondents thought that Australian troops should be withdrawn and 36 percent said they should stay.
- cshcn: Ever get old below percent of percent of cshcn.
- population: Fifty percent of the mixed population in the UK are under 16 years of age.
- vote: He was elected with 92 percent of the vote.
Preposition: per
- annum: Seasonal loans are available for seasonal cultivation at an interest rate of 20 percent per annum.
percent Quotes
Six percent unemployment only looks good from the vantage point of the other 94 percent.
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