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See also: per-centage
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /pɚˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
- (Philippines, nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
- Hyphenation: per‧cent‧age
Audio (US): (file)
Noun
[edit]percentage (countable and uncountable, plural percentages)
- The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- Synonym: centage
- A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
- A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
- She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
- (informal) Benefit or advantage.
- There was no percentage in staying at home.
Usage notes
[edit]- A percentage is often denoted by the character ⟨%⟩.
- e.g. 50% denotes 50 per cent.
- For sports statistics, percentages are mostly expressed in American and Canadian English as proportions of up to three decimal places and are read as if they were whole numbers.
- e.g. (0).500 denotes five hundred, not 50% or 50 per cent.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
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References
[edit]- ^ “percentage, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- procentage (archaic)
Etymology
[edit]From percent + -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]percentage n (plural percentages)
- percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)
Descendants
[edit]- → Indonesian: persentase
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