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per cent
/ pə ˈsɛnt /
adverb
- Alsoper centum in or for every hundred %
noun
- a percentage or proportion
- often plural securities yielding a rate of interest as specified
he bought three percents
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Word History and Origins
Origin of per cent1
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Example Sentences
The Wall Street Journal reported that in the U.S. 44 per cent of drinkers aged between 21 and 27 had never even tried Budweiser.
In Kentucky the bourbon distillers have had to increase their payrolls by 77 per cent in two years to meet the demand.
And--crucially--if no one gets 50 per cent of the vote, the top two candidates face off on December 6th.
In 2011, Iran accounted for 80 per cent of the opium seizures in the world, and 30 percent of the heroin seizures.
The number of cases jumped by 129, or 38 per cent, in the week from June 25 to July 2, the WHO said.
The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.
We did not talk much about the past at dinner, except—ah me, how bitterly we regretted our 10 per cent.
The percentage of gold to the notes—the main demand liability—has, of course, fallen from about 65 to 35 per cent.
At present this medium is paper money depreciated, as in the case of the Reichsbank notes, by nearly 30 per cent.
The war credit bank of Greater Berlin, for instance, was established with a capital of 18 millions of marks, of which 25 per cent.
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