fifty percent
Noun
Meaning
a half expressed as a percentage
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After passing by the legislature, the amendment needs ratification from at least fifty percent of all eligible voters of the ROC regardless of voter turnout.
All Deputy Ministers have also agreed to donate fifty percent (50%) of their salaries for the next two months, i.e. April and May, into the Fund.
As he failed to achieve a fifty percent majority, he had to go through a runoff election on December 28, which he also won.
During the 1980s, Pepsi-Cola ran a series of television advertisements showing people participating in taste tests demonstrating that, according to the commercials, "fifty percent of the participants who said they preferred Coke actually chose the Pepsi."
By the time of the coup in 1989, over fifty percent of most Army units were staffed by soldiers and NCOs from the South.
In turn, a carrier woman has a fifty percent chance of passing on a mutated X chromosome region to each of her male offspring.