Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. centigrade.
- abbr. Latin centum (hundred)
- abbr. century.
Examples
“I am happy that today I can still pick my nose and I get immediate results (breathing better) and it doesn't cost me a friggin cent. lol”
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“Lying west of the Great Lakes are 171,000,000 acres of arable land, and only about four per cent. is yet under cultivation.”
“Our books do not pass through the hands of General Agents, (as nearly all other subscription works do,) therefore we are enabled to give our canvassers the extra per cent. which is usually allowed to General Agents.”
“The interpretation of the asses or centesimoe usuroe at twelve, the unciarioe at one per cent., is maintained by the best critics and civilians: Noodt, (l.ii. c. 2, p. 207,) Gravina, (Opp.p. 205,”
“Ninety per cent. of the saloons, gambling houses, and vice dens in Philadelphia have closed down tight as a result of the recent police drive, General Smedley D.”
“Drop more tonnage smack in the midst of Germany, where people live and where no bombs will go to waste: “The 99 per cent. which miss the military target all help to kill, damage, frighten or interfere with Germans in Germany and the whole 100 per cent. of the bomber organisation is doing useful work, and not merely 1 per cent. of it.””
“On the legal pad, Grace wrote the equation: Late twentieth cent. + large Amer. cities + ?”
“They only charged two per cent. a month and made quite a good living out of it, considering they hardly ever had a bad debt.”
“The same survey put the New Democrats at 19 per cent, the Bloc Quebecois at 11 per cent and the Greens at 8 per cent. h4 class="regseriflbl large"More related to this story Read the Feb. 23, 2011, EKOS poll”
“Proxy votes were received in respect of 7,693,227 Shares being 68 per cent. of the Shares in issue, all of which were in favour of the Resolutions.”
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