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Audio Help [pur; unstressed per] Pronunciation Key
Audio Help [pur; unstressed per] Pronunciation Key –preposition
–adverb
| 1. | for each; for every: Membership costs ten dollars per year. This cloth is two dollars per yard. |
| 2. | by means of; by; through: I am sending the recipe per messenger. |
| 3. | according to; in accordance with: I delivered the box per your instructions. |
| 4. | Informal. each; for each one: The charge for window-washing was five dollars per. |
—Usage note Per for a or an or for each occurs chiefly in technical or statistical contexts: miles per gallon; work-hours per week; feet per second; gallons of beer per person per year. It is also common in sports commentary: He averaged 16 points per quarter. Per is sometimes criticized in business writing in the sense “according to” and is rare in literary writing.
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prep.
adv. Informal
[Latin; see per1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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per (prep.)
1588 (earlier in various L. and Fr. phrases), from L. per "through, during, by means of, on account of, as in," from PIE base *per- "through, across, beyond" (cf. Skt. pari "around, about, through," O.Pers. pariy, Gk. peri "around, about, beyond," O.C.S. pre-, Rus. pere- "through," Lith. per "through," O.Ir. air- Goth. fair-, Ger. ver- O.E. fer-, intensive prefixes).
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per1 [pəː] preposition
out of
Example: We have less than one mistake per page.
per2 [pəː] prepositionExample: We have less than one mistake per page.
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for each
Example: The dinner will cost $15 per person.
per3 [pəː] prepositionExample: The dinner will cost $15 per person.
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in each
Example: six times per week
See also: per centExample: six times per week
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Per
Par\, prep. [F., fr. L. per. See Per.] By; with; -- used frequently in Early English in phrases taken from the French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
| PER Perseus (constellation) |
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