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percentage
[per-sen-tij]
noun
a rate or proportion per hundred.
an allowance, commission, or rate of interest calculated by percent.
a proportion in general.
Only a small percentage of the class will graduate with honors.
gain; benefit; profit; advantage.
percentage
/ əˈɛԳɪ /
noun
proportion or rate per hundred parts
commerce the interest, tax, commission, or allowance on a hundred items
any proportion in relation to the whole
informalprofit or advantage
Confusables Note
Other 51Թ Forms
- percentaged adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of percentage1
Example Sentences
In 2021, data from Granville County indicated that 21 percent of children under the age of 18 experienced food insecurity while the percentage of students who received free and reduced school meals remained unchanged.
If you’re making a larger show, every percentage becomes a bigger amount of money and also represents a larger amount of people to employ.
That’s a far higher percentage of men than work in the executive branch as a whole, where 54% of staffers are male, according to 2024 data from the Office of Personnel Management.
Should this current squad see such a percentage increase, we will be looking at a set of young England players with a combined value of towards £1bn.
They receive as much as $20,000 guaranteed for one-night stands, plus a percentage of profits.
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When To Use
Percentage is a rate or proportion per hundred, as in This graph shows the percentage of homes that have a microwave.Percentage is also used more generally to mean any proportion, as in Studies have shown that a large percentage of people love cute animals.A percent is one one-hundredth (1/100) of something. Percentage refers to the rate or proportion of that one hundred. Usually, you will see the word percentage used in math equations or statistics or when someone is measuring the increase and decrease in rates.Informally, percentage can mean a gain or advantage, as in There is no percentage to be gained from lying to the sheriff.Generally, percentage and percent can be used interchangeably when referring to vague proportions. However, the word percentage never follows an exact number. In this case, only percent can be used in The number of pet owners increased by 10 percent.A percentile is any of the possible 100 equal parts a range of values can be divided into. A given percentile means that the percentage of all possible outcomes is lower or lesser than the given percentile. For example, if you score in the 92nd percentile of an exam, you scored higher than 92 percent of all other people who took the exam.Example: After careful measuring, the percentage of people who hated pineapple on pizza was found to be significantly higher than first thought.
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