PERCENT

percent

Noun

  1. A part or other object per hundred
    A resolution must receive fifty-one percent of the votes to pass.
  2. percentage.

Adjective

  1. Expressed in percents; usually together with a number.
    ''I got a ten percent raise!
    ''The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent.


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per cent

Noun

Twelve per cent


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