Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.
- n. The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.
- n. A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part: The hecklers constituted only a small percentage of the audience.
- n. An amount, such as an allowance, duty, or commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales: work for a percentage.
- n. Informal Advantage; gain: There is no percentage in work without pay.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Rate or proportion per hundred: as, the percentage of loss; the percentage of oxygen in some compound, or of pure metal in an ore; specifically, in com., an allowance, duty, commission, or rate of interest on a hundred; loosely, proportion in general.
Wiktionary
- n. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- n. A share of the profits.
- n. informal Benefit or advantage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Com.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
- n. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
Etymologies
- From Latin per centum, "for every hundred", + -age. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Ma's trust index fell 1.7 percentage points from last month to 37.1 percent, against his distrust index of 44.7 percent - down 2.4 percentage points.”
“For every given level of your output a certain percentage is direct and indirect energy costs.”
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“If a certain percentage is not normal then you are not removing enough of them and patients might die from missed diseased cases.”
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“Though I still think assigning a percentage is a meaningless estimate.”
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“This percentage is the highest rate in the 51 years that these estimates have been released.”
The Huffington Post: Rabbi Steve Gutow: 43 Million Reasons for Congress to Get Serious
“Some regions with "higher" gas prices still only spend 2% of their median income on gas, while the percentage is as high as 16% in Wilcox County, Alabama.”
Gas Price Impact Map: Rural US Getting Slammed By $4 Gas - The Consumerist
“I think since the percentage is the same amoung the whites and the blacks.”
“I think the percentage is about half of what he gets – 23.5%.”
“Pondering the answer made me dig: the Joshua Project references a Christianity Today article which briefly suggests the percentage is a low 2%.”
“I wish the poll would tell you how many people have voted so I could tell whether the percentage is a big deal or not.”
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Lists
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EN - academic vocabulary
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The -ages of Man(-age)
Trivet also has this list, which you should go see. And then I found this list, and this list...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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Tag! You're it.
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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my dictionary
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influx / movement
infusion, intromission, introduction, influence, power, inflow, influx, accession, concourse, accumulation, outlay, emigration and 28 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear I'm kind of amazed this word hasn't yet been added. Today is November 20, 2008. (For Wordieternity.) Nov 20, 2008