percentage

Definition

  • noun: a number or rate that is expressed as a certain number of parts of something divided into 100 parts
  • noun: a part of a whole expressed in hundredths
  • usually singular
  • synonyms: pay, backwardation, contango

Examples

  • The 'percentages' of women completing high school and college were 95 percent and 52 percent, respectively.

  • A large 'percentage' of students passed the test. [=most of the students passed the test]

  • Interest rates fell two 'percentage points'. [=interest rates fell two percent]

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