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percentage

  • /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
  • /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/ Philippines, nonstandard

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From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).

noun percentages · per-centage

  1. countable, uncountable The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole. A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

    Similar: centage

  2. countable, uncountable A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar. She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
  3. countable, informal, uncountable Benefit or advantage. There was no percentage in staying at home.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: per centum, percent, pct, part, portion, share, centenary, centennial, percentile, ratio, average, statistic, figure, number, margin, centigrade

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noun part of a whole

Españolporcentaje
한국어백분율 baekbunyul, 백분비 baekbunbi, 퍼센티지 peosentiji
日本語百分率 hyakubunritsu, 百分比 hyakubunhi, パーセンテージ pāsentēji
中文百分率 bǎifēnlǜ, 百分比 bǎifēnbǐ
हिन्दीप्रतिशतता pratiśattā
Portuguêspercentagem, porcentagem
Françaispourcentage
DeutschProzentsatz, Hundertsatz, Vomhundertsatz
Italianopercentuale
Ελληνικάποσοστό posostó, εκατοστιαία αναλογία ekatostiaía analogía
Русскийпроце́нт procént, проце́нтное отноше́ние procéntnoje otnošénije
Tiếng Việtsố phần trăm, tỷ lệ phần trăm
العربيةالنِّسْبَة الْمِئَوِيَّة an-nisba l-miʔawiyya

noun share of the profits

Españolporcentaje
Portuguêspercentagem, porcentagem
Françaispourcentage
Deutschprozentualer Anteil, Hundertteil, Hundertanteil
Italianopercentuale
Ελληνικάποσοστό posostó

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@misc{percentage_2026,
  title = {percentage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/percentage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}