Percentage

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fraction or ratio with 100 understood as the denominator; for example, 0.98 equals a percentage of 98.
  • n. The result obtained by multiplying a quantity by a percent.
  • n. A proportion or share in relation to a whole; a part: The hecklers constituted only a small percentage of the audience.
  • n. An amount, such as an allowance, duty, or commission, that varies in proportion to a larger sum, such as total sales: work for a percentage.
  • n. Informal Advantage; gain: There is no percentage in work without pay.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
  • n. A share of the profits.
  • n. Benefit or advantage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
  • n. assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
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    percent    amount    proportion    ratio    fraction    cost    estimate    majority    income    share