sev·en·ty-five

[sev-uhn-tee-fahyv]
noun
1.
a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
2.
a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
3.
a set of this many persons or things.
4.
Military.
a.
a gun with a 75-mm caliber.
b.
the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.
adjective
5.
amounting to 75 in number.
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seventy-five

adjective
being five more than seventy 
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Example sentences
Seventy-five percent of us die from cardiovascular disease, cancer, or stroke.
Today, they account for seventy-five per cent of it.
Seventy-five years later, in the wake of another economic crisis, things
  couldn't be more different.
Seventy-five percent of your body's energy expenditure goes to temperature
  regulation.
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