-percentercomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly, e.g. ninety percenter Brit.

/ˌnʌɪntɪ pəˈsɛntə/, U.S.

/ˌnaɪn(t)i pərˈsɛn(t)ər/.

Forms: see per cent adv. and n. and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: per cent n., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < per cent n. + -er suffix¹.

Following a numeral: forming compounds chiefly denoting (a) something on which a specified percentage is reckoned or something reckoned as a (specified) percentage; (b) a person who takes or gives a specified percentage (esp. interest or commission) or who belongs to a specified percentage of a population. See also five percenter n. at five adj. and n. Compounds 2, hundred-per-center at hundred n. and adj. 2c, ten per center n. at ten adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2.

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?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man iii. 52 For two hundred at two months—drawn by Captain Crabbs—accepted the Honourable Augustus Greenway: that's a thirty per center.

1897 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 2/2 He had been charged with lending money at 650 per cent..charged with being a 650-percenter.

1949 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. e7/5 The Investigations subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments which is inquiring into the activities of the ‘five percenters’ and the ‘influence peddlers’ has discovered that selling influence may be unethical, but it is not always illegal.

1950 E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees xxxiii. 208 The brown-nosers, the five and ten and twenty percenters and all the jerks.

1959 Punch 10 June 781/1 We are tempted to deduce that her age bracket..is a sure hundred percenter.

1976 ‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal iv. i. 154 Louis was 99 per cent sure the caller was a nutcase: but it was by following up the one-percenters that great exclusives were found.

1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xxviii. 230 Some girls would let you touch and feel and kiss but they wouldn't let you go all the way and they were known as ninety percenters.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	-percenter
释义	-percentercomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly, e.g. ninety percenter Brit. /ˌnʌɪntɪ pəˈsɛntə/, U.S. /ˌnaɪn(t)i pərˈsɛn(t)ər/. Forms: see per cent adv. and n. and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: per cent n., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < per cent n. + -er suffix¹. Following a numeral: forming compounds chiefly denoting (a) something on which a specified percentage is reckoned or something reckoned as a (specified) percentage; (b) a person who takes or gives a specified percentage (esp. interest or commission) or who belongs to a specified percentage of a population. See also five percenter n. at five adj. and n. Compounds 2, hundred-per-center at hundred n. and adj. 2c, ten per center n. at ten adj., n., and adv. Compounds 2. ΚΠ ?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man iii. 52 For two hundred at two months—drawn by Captain Crabbs—accepted the Honourable Augustus Greenway: that's a thirty per center. 1897 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 2/2 He had been charged with lending money at 650 per cent..charged with being a 650-percenter. 1949 N.Y. Times 14 Aug. e7/5 The Investigations subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments which is inquiring into the activities of the ‘five percenters’ and the ‘influence peddlers’ has discovered that selling influence may be unethical, but it is not always illegal. 1950 E. Hemingway Across River & into Trees xxxiii. 208 The brown-nosers, the five and ten and twenty percenters and all the jerks. 1959 Punch 10 June 781/1 We are tempted to deduce that her age bracket..is a sure hundred percenter. 1976 ‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal iv. i. 154 Louis was 99 per cent sure the caller was a nutcase: but it was by following up the one-percenters that great exclusives were found. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xxviii. 230 Some girls would let you touch and feel and kiss but they wouldn't let you go all the way and they were known as ninety percenters. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form?1863
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