percentage
Meanings
Plural: percentages
Noun
- a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
- assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
- The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
- A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
- Benefit or advantage.
Origin / Etymology
From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).
Scrabble Score: 15
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Words With Friends Score: 19
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