Modern English usage. 2014.
percentage — [pər sent′ij] n. 1. a given part or amount in every hundred 2. any number or amount, as of interest, tax, etc., stated in percent 3. part; portion; share [a percentage of the audience ] ☆ 4. Informal a) use; advantage; profit [no percentage in… … English World dictionary
Percentage — Per*cent age, n. [Per cent + age, as in average. See {Per}, and {Cent}.] (Com.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
percentage — I noun allotment, commission, contingent, factorage, fraction, interest, moiety, part, percent, portion, proportion, quota, rate per hundred, ratio, ration, share II index commission (fee), moiety, part (por … Law dictionary
percentage — 1789, from PERCENT (Cf. percent) + AGE (Cf. age). Sense of profit, advantage is from 1862 … Etymology dictionary
percentage — [n] portion, allotment allowance, bite, bonus, chunk, commission, corner*, cut, discount, division, duty, fee, holdout, interest, juice*, payoff, percent, piece, piece of the action*, points*, proportion, quota, rate, ratio, section, slice*,… … New thesaurus
percentage — ► NOUN 1) a rate, number, or amount in each hundred. 2) a proportion of a larger sum of money granted as an allowance or commission. 3) any proportion or share in relation to a whole … English terms dictionary
percentage — Price expressed as a percentage of par. Euroclear Clearing and Settlement glossary * * * percentage per‧cen‧tage [pəˈsentɪdʒ ǁ pər ] noun [countable, uncountable] 1. an amount considered as part of a total which is 100: percentage of • What… … Financial and business terms
Percentage — In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 ( per cent meaning per hundred ). It is often denoted using the percent sign, % . For example, 45% (read as forty five percent ) is equal to 45 / 100, or… … Wikipedia
percentage — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ considerable, high, huge, large, overwhelming, significant, sizeable, substantial ▪ The area has a high percentage of unemployed men … Collocations dictionary
percentage — per|cen|tage W3 [pəˈsentıdʒ US pər ] n 1.) [U and C] an amount expressed as if it is part of a total which is 100 percentage of ▪ The percentage of school leavers that go to university is about five per cent. ▪ Tax is paid as a percentage of… … Dictionary of contemporary English
