- a variation of percent.
per cent
Britishadverb
noun
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a percentage or proportion
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(often plural) securities yielding a rate of interest as specified
he bought three percents
Etymology
Origin of per cent
C16: from Medieval Latin per centum out of every hundred
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"Do I wish I'd had that advice at the time? 1,000 per cent," Ashe says.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
"Currency markets are still pricing in a consensus that US inflation will ultimately return to two per cent," said Invesco's David Chao.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
"I've lost about 75 per cent of my tips, which is a significant amount of my income," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
Barely one per cent of professors at UK universities are black, so he was joining a small and highly visible minority in academia.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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