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one tenth

Noun

Meaning

a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts

Source: WordNet

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one-tenth

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I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. Groucho Marx

Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. ... And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold. Milton Friedman

It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service. Benjamin Franklin

In the UK, while the arts are the second biggest sector after banking, they probably form less than one tenth of 1% of government spending. It's completely scuzzy. Anish Kapoor

Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor. Barber Conable

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it's got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi Arabia. Daniel Yergin

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