per cent
Speech parts
1. per cent - Noun
2. per cent - Adverb
3. per cent - Phrase
Meaning
per cent (plural per cent)
(chiefly Commonwealth) Form of percent
per cent
(chiefly Commonwealth) Form of percent.
per cent.
(archaic) Alternative form of percent
Alternative names
per cent.
Synonyms
Examples
I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Marketing, and the whole firm, should devote extraordinary endeavour towards delighting, keeping for ever and expanding the sales to the 20 per cent of customers who provide 80 per cent.
The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But war-time profits -- ah! that is another matter -- twenty, sixty, one hundred, three hundred, and even eighteen hundred per cent -- the sky is the limit.
We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.
Ninety per cent of inspiration is perspiration.