- 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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Atlantic Lottery - another government-owned corporation that manages lotteries - told Canadian media that about one per cent of prizes go unclaimed, often much smaller sums.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
Between 2020 and 2025, the carbon footprint of its investments had dropped 42 per cent, the fund said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Liverpool were impressive for the most part against a Manchester City side that arrived on Merseyside with a 100 per cent record.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
"Do I wish I'd had that advice at the time? 1,000 per cent," Ashe says.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
This didn’t mean that twenty per cent of the people were free to rob the other eighty per cent of the means to live.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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