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per cent | pa 'sent I (also US percent)
adverb by a specified amount in or for every hundred: new car sales may be down nineteen per cent | staff rejected a 1.8 per cent increase.
noun one part in every hundred: a reduction of half a per cent or so in price. • the rate, number, or amount in each hundred.
ORIGIN mid 16th century: from per + cent, perhaps an abbreviation of pseudo-Latin per centum.
per cent | pa 'sent I (also US percent)
adverb
by a specified amount in or for every hundred: new car sales may be down nineteen per cent | staff rejected a 1.8 per cent increase.
noun
one part in every hundred: a reduction of half a per cent or so in price.
• the rate, number, or amount in each hundred.
ORIGIN
mid 16th century: from per + cent, perhaps an abbreviation of pseudo-Latin per centum.
It was wrong back then, and it is still wrong today.
It was wrong back then, and it is still wrong today.
Not so old chap.
Not so old chap.
It is so. Arguing otherwise is just silly. Next you will be telling me how the Earth is flat and the center of the universe. There are dozens of textbooks that say so to prove it!!!
It is so. Arguing otherwise is just silly. Next you will be telling me how the Earth is flat and the center of the universe. There are dozens of textbooks that say so to prove it!!!
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