per cent

/ pə ˈsɛnt /

adverb

1. Also: per centum.  %. in or for every hundred

noun

1. a percentage or proportion

2. (often plural) securities yielding a rate of interest as specified

   he bought three percents

Word History and Origins

Origin of per cent¹

C16: from Medieval Latin per centum out of every hundred

Example Sentences

Leanne Simcoe, from charity Little Stars, said demand for help has skyrocketed, and family referrals increased by 176 per cent between 2023 and 2024.

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"Ninety-nine per cent of people are very polite when they come up to me and have a conversation."

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Some 96 per cent of the 15,300 people that underwent assisted dying in 2023 had a death deemed "reasonably forseeable", due to severe medical conditions like cancer.

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"It's fifty-fifty these days. Fifty per cent are real Shahed drones, and fifty per cent are imitation drones. Their job is to overload our air defences and ideally get us to use a missile against a drone that costs peanuts," says Ukrainian air force spokesman Yuri Ihnat.

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It added that the average annual cost over the 25 years would be £9.9bn, or 0.3% per cent of GDP.

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