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