Percent

Word PERCENT
Character 7
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /pəˈsɛnt/

Definitions and meanings of "Percent"

What do we mean by percent?

Out of each hundred; per hundred. adverb

One part in a hundred. noun

A percentage or portion. noun

Public securities yielding interest at a specified percentage. noun

Paying or demanding interest at a specified percentage. adjective

A part or other object per hundred noun

Percentage. noun

Expressed in percents; usually together with a number. adjective

A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) noun

A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).

One part per hundred; one percent.

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The word "percent" in example sentences

Find a fixed rate personal loan from a bank or peer lending company like Lending Club, which offers personal unsecured loans for paying off high interest debt at rates starting at 7.93 percent APR; which is 53 percent lower than the overall national credit card APR of 16.81 percent* and can translate into thousands in savings over the life of a loan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Non-weather related CO fatalities associated with generator use are also on the rise — by 53 percent from 2004 to 2005, and another 41 percent  from 2005 to 2006. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Of course, Ahmadinejad has won, and then, well, there may be a 10 percent -10 percent\ of what? ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition, while only two of the 14 airlines outsourced 80 percent or more in 2005, by late last year nine of the 14 were outsourcing between 80 percent  and 94 percent. ❋ Unknown (2008)

January 2008: 2.4 percent; December 2009: 26.7 percent* ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is also a 30 percent discount on eye exams and a 10 percent** discount on contacts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The rate of major congenital malformations identified in the group that was exposed to metoclopramide during the first trimester was 5.3 percent% (182 of 3458 infants), as compared with a rate of 4.9 percent (3834 of 78,245 infants). ❋ Unknown (2009)

So if we had 100 lenders and 10 were lending a lot, 60 lending a little, and 30 not lending at all, then the mode average would be "Banks that lend a little" and we could say that 60 percent (now you see why I used a total of 100 ...) are lending a little, 10 percent are lending a lot, and 30 percent\% not at all. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, Silver found that the percentage of 18-to-34-year-olds on the Battleground poll (17 percent) was much smaller than on the CPS survey of voters from 2004 (24 percent*). ❋ Unknown (2008)

I cant imagine that certain percent is less than 4! ❋ Anne-Marie (2008)

Big oils profits (by margin percent) are not larger than many other industries (don’t get caught up in the dollar amounts, margin percent is much more telling). ❋ Unknown (2005)

Food is expected to increase between 8 and 10 percent from the rise in petrol. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The average wait in 2008 had dropped about 30 percent from the average of 8 minutes, 9 seconds during the final six months of 2007. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[T] he results of the 2009 duck breeding population and habitat survey are eye-popping: May ponds across the prairie breeding grounds increased 45 percent from a year ago, the total duck population was up 25 percent and mallard numbers climbed 10 percent .... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Over the past 30 years, qualifying Boone and Crockett records book entries for American elk have increased 193 percent from a total of 14 in 1977 to 41 in 2007. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Individual income tax receipts are down 22 percent from a year ago. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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