Definition of percent
: in the hundred : of each hundred
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Definition of percent
plural percent
or percents
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percents plural, British
: securities bearing a specified rate of interest
Examples of percent in a Sentence
The value has increased half a percent.
Recent Examples of percent from the Web
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Thirty-three percent came from the second round while no other defensive position had better than 20 percent.
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The board had already given Evans a $46,130 boost to his base salary in 2016, which increased his pay more than 20 percent.
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In California, several other agencies that provide Migrant and Seasonal Head Start care reported drops in enrollment last year of between 15 and 20 percent.
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And leaders of both parties launched a behind-the-scenes effort to shore up Obamacare with a $380 million tax on insurance companies meant to prevent premium increases of up to 50 percent for people buying insurance on the health exchange.
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An earlier version of the bill would have had employees contribute a phased-in amount of up to 3 percent.
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Razer Razer’s kicking things off with discounts of up to 75 percent on Ubisoft games, and by giving away 10,000 Steam keys for Furi on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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Prices for electronics and other equipment sold in the U.S. could rise about 15%, lifting overall consumer prices, excluding food and energy, by a modest tenth of a percent.
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Pay rates have posted annual gains of more than 3 percent in the first two months of 2018, something that hasn’t happened since 2016.
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First Known Use of percent
1667
Other Mathematics and Statistics Terms
Definition of percent
1
: reckoned on the basis of a whole divided into 100 parts
2
: paying interest at a specified percent
Recent Examples of percent from the Web
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There is a 20 or so percent chance of isolated showers but nothing that will be a washout.
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First Known Use of percent
1888
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PERCENT Defined for English Language Learners
percent
Definition of percent for English Language Learners
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: one part in a hundred : an amount that is equal to one one-hundredth of something
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: a part of a whole
PERCENT Defined for Kids
Definition of percent for Students
: out of every hundred : measured by the number of units as compared with one hundred
a 15 percent raise
My rent was raised 15 percent.
Definition of percent for Students
plural percent
: a part or fraction of a whole expressed in hundredths
Ten percent of the class failed the test.
Word Root of percent
The Latin word centum, meaning “hundred,” gives us the root cent. Words from the Latin centum have something to do with the number 100. A dollar is made up of 100 cents. A century is a period of 100 years. A percent is the portion of something out of 100 parts.
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