seventy-five
[sev-uh n-tee-fahyv]
- a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
- a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.
- a set of this many persons or things.
- Military.
- a gun with a 75-mm caliber.
- the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.
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- amounting to 75 in number.
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Examples from the Web for seventy-five
Contemporary Examples
Seventy-five percent of the collection was done by the time he got there.
Seventy-five years ago, ‘War of the Worlds’ hit the airwaves, setting off a national panic.
Seventy-five percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours.
In late April, a tornado struck near Donovan, killing seventy-five people.
Seventy-five percent of borrowers use their Lending Club financing for debt consolidation or credit-card debt.
Historical Examples
They have to be married seventy-five years before they can have one.
Samantha Among the Brethren, Part 3.Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
In 1810 there were 58,046, an increase of seventy-five per cent.
The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII)John Greenleaf Whittier
Being of steady habits, he saved in that time about seventy-five dollars.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
As it stands, your cut will be seventy-five—if he splits with you, and I think he will.
Old Man CurryCharles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
They were fifteen; it amounted therefore to seventy-five francs.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola