percent

Forms

1.For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).
- Twelve percent of the world’s population now relies directly or indirectly on the fisheries industry.
- A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.
- Diane Watson has had a distinguished career in education and politics, and last year was elected to the House of Representatives, winning 75 percent of the vote in her Congressional district.

1.A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
2.An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
- Why, from the pleasant and businesslike manner in which the transaction is carried out, it might be a large purchase in the three per cents. Yet what a piece of work a man makes of his first "pop."
3.One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth.
- And from 1966, under Regulation Q, there was a ceiling of 5.5 per cent on their deposit rates, a quarter of a per cent more than banks were allowed to pay.
4.The percent sign, %.

1.Per hundred.
- By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?