percentagenoun
uk/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/us/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/percentage noun (AMOUNT)
B2 [ C ] an amount of something, often expressed as a number out of 100:
What percentage of women return to work after having a baby?
Interest rates have risen by two percentage points.
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- The percentage of live births continues to increase.
- Police only recover a very small percentage of stolen goods.
- What percentage of the adult male population is unemployed?
- Interest rates have risen by two percentage points .
- These figures are expressed as a percentage of the total.
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Numerical relationships
- differential
- disproportionate
- function
- geometric(al) progression
- independent variable
- index
- inverse function
- inverse proportion
- pc
- percentile
- pro rata
- proportion
- proportional
- prorate
- ratio
- recursion
- set
- subset
- trinomial
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percentage noun (ADVANTAGE)
[ U ] US informal an advantage:
There's no percentage in working such long hours.
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Advantage and disadvantage
- a free ride idiom
- a stick to beat sb with idiom
- advantage
- an ace up your sleeve idiom
- attraction
- be/stay/keep one jump ahead idiom
- cash
- cash in on sth
- edge
- fish
- in the right place at the right time idiom
- it's tough at the top idiom
- lock in sth
- lock sb out of sth
- lose out
- profit
- profit from sth
- upside
- you've got nothing to lose idiom
- your best/strongest/trump card idiom
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