percentadverb
also per cent uk/pəˈsent/us/pɚˈsent/B1 for or out of every 100, shown by the symbol %:
You got 20 percent of the answers right - that means one in every five.
Only 40 percent of people bothered to vote in the election.
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- Something like 60 percent of all married men will have an affair at some point in their marriage.
- Sales are up by 36 percent. How about that?
- They offer a 10 percent discount on rail travel for students.
- Across the country, exam results have improved by an average of eight percent.
- I've managed to negotiate a five percent pay increase with my boss.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Numerical relationships
- differential
- disproportionate
- function
- geometric(al) progression
- independent variable
- index
- inverse function
- inverse proportion
- pc
- percentage
- percentile
- pro rata
- proportion
- proportional
- prorate
- recursion
- set
- subset
- trinomial
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