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  1. preposition To, for, or by each; for every: Gasoline once cost 40 cents per gallon.
  2. preposition According to; by: Changes were made to the manuscript per the author's instructions.
  3. preposition By means of; through.
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  • Kiev said it did not accept Gazprom's proposed 2009 price of 250 million dollars per, although this rate is substantially lower then that paid by most of Russia's gas clients in Europe. also accused Ukraine of threatening to steal gas meant for other European customers and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that —  Yahoo! News: Top Stories
  • Last year, federal spending -- per person -- was nearly seven times greater for those 65 or older than for those under 18. —  Firedoglake
  • Limit yourself to using one name per thread to demonstrate responsibility. —  Idaho Falls Today! Local Information.
  • By my keynote at LinuxConf Australia, I managed to recreate my GUADEC presentation into a nice picture and word per slide format. —  Stormy's Corner
  • However, it felt like I'd learned one style (image and word per slide) not that I'd mastered the art of putting together an effective presentation. —  Stormy's Corner
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  1. Latin; see per1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin: see per-.
  2. Middle English per-, par-, from Old French per-, par- = Provencal per-= Spanish Portuguese Italian per-, from Latin per, preposition, through, by, by means of; for, on account of, for the sake of; in comp., as a prefix, in the above senses, or with adjectives and adverbs; as an intensive, as peracutus, very sharp, perfacilis, very easy, perlucidus, pellucidus, very clear; akin to Greek παρά, beside (see para-), to Sanskrit parā, away, and to English from. Before l, per- is usually assimilated to pel-. This prefix occurs as par-, not recognized as a prefix, in parboil, pardon, parson, etc., and as a merged preposition in paramour, pardy, parfay, etc.: see per (b). But most words in which par- formerly occurred have now per-, as parfit, now perfect, parfourme, now perform, etc.
 

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