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Percent

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
pə(ɹ)ˈsɛnt

Definitions

  1. A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
  2. Per hundred.
  3. One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
  4. The percent sign, %.
  5. An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.

Equivalents

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Azərbaycan dilifaiz
Българскипроцент
বাংলাশতাংশ
Catalàper cent
Češtinaprocento
Danskprocent
Ελληνικάτοις εκατό
עבריתאחוז
Հայերենտոկոս
Bahasa Indonesiapersen
Italianoper cento
ქართულიპროცენტი
Қазақ тіліпайыз
ភាសាខ្មែរភាគរយ
Kurdîfaîz
Кыргызчапайыз
Lietuviųprocentas
Македонскипроцент
Монголхувь
Bahasa Melayuperatus
Nederlandsprocent
ਪੰਜਾਬੀਪ੍ਰਤਿਸ਼ਤ
Portuguêspor cento
Românăprocent
Русскийпроцент
Slovenčinapercento
Svenskaprocent
Kiswahiliasilimia
Tagalogbahagdan
Türkçeyüzde
اردوفیصد
O'zbekchafoiz
Tiếng Việtphần trăm

Examples

only a small percent attain the top ranks
And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.”
“[…]Several stocks in the Three Per Cents and Three Per Cents Reduced to be transferred into the name and to the credit of the prosecutor, without any authority to him (the traverser) to sell, negotiate, transfer or pledge the said 9000l. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities.”
Why, from the pleasant and businesslike manner in which the transaction is carried out, it might be a large purchase in the three per cents. Yet what a piece of work a man makes of his first "pop."”
picking up on a phrase that was used as early as 1752, Benjamin Disraeli famously referred to thesweet simplicity of the three percents in his novel Endymion (1880) because of the reliable dividend this form of investment provided.”
“By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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