percentage point
noun
: one hundredth of a whole : percent
interest rates rose one percentage point from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent
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The fresh jobs data arrived less than a week after the Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate a quarter of a percentage point in an effort to boost the sluggish labor market.
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2025
Down by around one full percentage point, on average, for 30-year purchase terms, rates here have hovered around 3-year lows for much of the last three months.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
Nearly all Democratic targets were within a 15-percentage point margin in 2024, many of them much closer than that.
—Bill Barrow, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
The Fed has reduced the fed funds rates by three-quarters of a percentage point since September.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
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Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2025
Down by around one full percentage point, on average, for 30-year purchase terms, rates here have hovered around 3-year lows for much of the last three months.
—Matt Richardson, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
Nearly all Democratic targets were within a 15-percentage point margin in 2024, many of them much closer than that.
—Bill Barrow, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2025
The Fed has reduced the fed funds rates by three-quarters of a percentage point since September.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 12 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for percentage point
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“Percentage point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/percentage%20point. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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