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percent

/per-sent/US // pərˈsɛnt //UK // (pə ˈsɛnt) //

百分比,百分之,百分率,百分之百

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called per centum. one one-hundredth part; 1/100.
    • : percentage.
    • : British. stocks, bonds, etc., that bear an indicated rate of interest.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : figured or expressed on the basis of a rate or proportion per hundred:to get three percent interest.Symbol: %

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Examples

  • As for Heinicke, he said his left shoulder is “pretty much 100 percent.”

  • “I’m more than positive that it was literally less than half a percent,” this person said.

  • If a third party is taking anywhere between 15 to 30 percent of the order, then that’s more than the profit of the people who are actually doing the work.

  • Among those stocks is Virgin Galactic, which has a "short percent of float" of about 70 percent.

  • If they were, about 35 to 40 percent of adults would never get a license to drive.

  • Thirty-six percent were in favor and 38 percent were opposed.

  • Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.

  • The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.

  • With chemotherapy, her doctors give her at least an 80 percent chance of survival.

  • This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.

  • The public wants to see midgets and fully fifty percent of these are now engaged in some form of show business.

  • It costs the Government from 50 percent more to twice as much as it would private enterprise to put water on the land (applause).

  • Eighty-odd percent of our people are directly or indirectly dependent for their living on business conditions.

  • Of this great territory 27 percent is occupied by forests, a proportion nearly the same as that of the forest area of Germany.

  • This had rendered unavoidable a twenty percent reduction in wages paid employes in the Navy Yard.