percentage

• per-centage (archaic)

From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /pə(ɹ)ˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /ˈpɜː(ɾ).senʈeːd͡ʒ/, /pa(ɾ)ˌsenˈʈeːd͡ʒ/
• (Philippines, nonstandard) IPA^(key): /ˈpɚsɛnt(e)ɪd͡ʒ/
• Hyphenation: per‧cent‧age

percentage (countable and uncountable, plural percentages)

1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   Synonym: centage

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

   • 2017 November 29, Walter Updegrave, “How much income will you actually need in retirement?”, in CNN Money‎^[1]:

     The replacement percentages are based largely on household spending data from the Department of Labor's Consumer Expenditure Survey.

   • 2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business‎^[2]:

     Kramer said California’s legislation is weak compared to the laws in Norway and other European countries, which require a certain percentage of women on boards.

2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

• A percentage is often denoted by the character ⟨%⟩.

e.g. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

• For sports statistics, percentages are mostly expressed in American and Canadian English as proportions of up to three decimal places and are read as if they were whole numbers.

e.g. (0).500 is pronounced five hundred, not 50% or 50 per cent.

• percent
• percentile
• permillage
• permyriad

• procentage (archaic)

From percent +‎ -age. Cf. English percentage, French percentage.

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɛr.sɛnˈtaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: per‧cen‧ta‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə

percentage n (plural percentages)

1. percentage (amount or rate as part of 100)

• → Indonesian: persentase