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ˈthree per ˌcent, adj. phr. and n.
A. as adj.
a. Yielding 3 per cent. interest (see B.).
b. Containing three parts in every hundred.
1753Bank of Eng. Dividend Bk. 5 Jan., 3 per cent. consolidated annuities. 1796Cnt. Rumford in Phil. Trans. LXXXVII. 215 In the three per cent. consolidated public funds of this country. 1880Barwell Aneurism i. 12, I..placed them in a three-per-cent. solution of carbolic acid.
B. as n. (absol. use of A. a). In pl. three per cents, the Government securities of Great Britain, consolidated in 1751 into a single stock paying 3 per cent. interest: see consolidated 1 b.
In 1888 the interest on the consolidated stock (consols) was reduced to 23/4 per cent., and in 1903 to 2½ per cent., so that the name, so long familiar, ceased to be applicable.
1794G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 195 We borrow in the Three Per Cents. 1823Scott Quentin D. Introd., There were two thousand three per cents as much lost to my family as if the sponge had been drawn over the national slate. a1839Praed Poems (1864) I. 266 Annuities and Three per Cents., Little cares he about them. 1905Harmsw. Encycl. 1562/2 In 1888..the 3 per cents. outstanding were..{pstlg}549,094,000. |