Percentage

Word PERCENTAGE
Character 10
Hyphenation per cent age
Pronunciations /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/

Definitions and meanings of "Percentage"

What do we mean by percentage?

A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98. noun

The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent. noun

A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part. noun

An amount, such as an allowance, duty, or commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales. noun

Advantage; gain. noun

Rate or proportion per hundred: as, the percentage of loss; the percentage of oxygen in some compound, or of pure metal in an ore; specifically, in com., an allowance, duty, commission, or rate of interest on a hundred; loosely, proportion in general. noun

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. noun

The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. noun

A share of the profits. noun

Benefit or advantage. noun

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

Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group noun

The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

Benefit or advantage.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Percentage

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The word "percentage" in example sentences

Ma's trust index fell 1.7 ­percentage points from last month to 37.1 percent, against his distrust index of 44.7 percent - down 2.4 percentage points. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If a certain percentage is not normal then you are not removing enough of them and patients might die from missed diseased cases. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For every given level of your output a certain percentage is direct and indirect energy costs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Though I still think assigning a percentage is a meaningless estimate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This percentage is the highest rate in the 51 years that these estimates have been released. ❋ Rabbi Steve Gutow (2010)

Some regions with "higher" gas prices still only spend 2% of their median income on gas, while the percentage is as high as 16% in Wilcox County, Alabama. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think since the percentage is the same amoung the whites and the blacks. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think the percentage is about half of what he gets – 23.5%. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pondering the answer made me dig: the Joshua Project references a Christianity Today article which briefly suggests the percentage is a low 2%. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I wish the poll would tell you how many people have voted so I could tell whether the percentage is a big deal or not. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Others argue that once you take away weekends and visits to Camp David the percentage is actually down around 13%. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If you add all these techniques of finance together in the U.S. economy over the last fifteen years they account for 98 percent of total new capital formation, and from what I have been able to discern from the Canadian economy, the percentage is about the same in Canada. ❋ Unknown (1974)

That kind of percentage is exactly what the Sixers need if they want to vault back into the Eastern Conference playoff picture. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That said, unbred does and a certain percentage of fawns will come into an estrous cycle this month. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A previous version of this article incorrectly stated the spread as a rise in percentage points. ❋ Stacy Meichtry (2010)

That exceeds the pace in percentage points of government-spending growth in Ireland (15.5), Portugal (7.9), Spain (6.6) or Greece (2.1). ❋ Rupert Darwall (2010)

He's dominating the American League race by near-Ruthian proportions, in percentage terms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A 2008 state law requires utilities to supply a certain percentage of its load with generation from solar resources. ❋ John Kell (2010)

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