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[pur, per]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

preposition

for each; for every.
Membership costs ten dollars per year. This cloth is two dollars per yard.
by means of; by; through.
I am sending the recipe per messenger.
Also according to; in accordance with.
I delivered the box per your instructions.
He managed to monopolize the meeting, per usual.

adverb

Informal.��each; for each one.
The charge for window-washing was five dollars per.

per-

a prefix meaning “through,” “thoroughly,” “utterly,” “very”: pervert; pervade; perfect.
Chemistry.��a prefix used in the names of inorganic acids and their salts that possess the maximum amount of the element specified in the base word: percarbonic (H 2 C 2 O5 ), permanganic (HMnO4 ), persulfuric (H 2 S 2 O8 ), acids; potassium permanganate (KMnO4 ); potassium persulfate (K 2 S 2 O8 ).

per.

abbreviation

percentile.
period.
person.

Per.

⁴

abbreviation

Persia.
Persian.

per-

prefix

through
pervade
throughout
perennial
away, beyond
perfidy
completely, throughly
perplex
(intensifier)
perfervid
indicating that a chemical compound contains a high proportion of a specified element
peroxide
perchloride
indicating that a chemical element is in a higher than usual state of oxidation
permanganate
perchlorate
(not in technical usage) a variant of peroxy-
persulphuric acid

per

/ pə, pɜː /

determiner

for every
three pence per pound

preposition

(esp in some Latin phrases) by; through
according to
as per specifications
informal��as usual

PER

abbreviation

Professional Employment Register

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Usage

Per meaning a or an or for each occurs chiefly in technical or statistical contexts: miles per gallon; work-hours per week; feet per second; gallons of beer per person per year. It is also common in sports commentary: He averaged 16 points per quarter. Per is sometimes criticized in business writing in the sense “according to” and is rare in literary writing.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of per¹

First recorded in 1580–90; from Latin: “through, by, for, for each”; for

Origin of per²

From Latin, combining form of per, and used as an intensive; per

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of per¹

from Latin per through

Origin of per²

C15: from Latin: by, for each

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Using up to six electric pumps per boat, the smugglers can often finish the job in less than fifteen minutes.

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Per his attorney, the former R&B megastar was removed from solitary confinement at a North Carolina prison and taken to Duke University Hospital.

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Waymo provides more than 250,000 paid rides per week.

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Car drivers with pre-pay accounts would pay £2.80 per crossing.

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Harris, who averaged 17.7 yards per catch and 100.8 yards receiving per game in two years at Mississippi, earned more reps with the No. 1 offense as minicamp progressed, trading positions with Jalen Reagor while Ladd McConkey and Quentin Johnston remained the top two options.

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