percentage

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English

Etymology

From Latin per centum, "for every hundred", + -age.

Pronunciation

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Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

1. 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.

2. A share of the profits.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

Ex. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

Translations

part of a whole

• Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
• Czech: procento (cs)
• Finnish: prosenttiosuus (fi), prosentti (fi)
• French: pourcentage (fr) m
• Galician: porcentaxe (gl)
• German: Prozentsatz (de) m

• Greek: ποσοστό (el) (posostó) n, εκατοστιαία αναλογία (el) (ekatostiaía analogía) f
• Italian: percentuale (it) f
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Portuguese: percentagem (pt) m
• Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
• Swedish: procentsats (sv) c, procenthalt (sv) c, andel (sv) c

share of the profits

• Finnish: prosenttiosuus (fi), prosentti (fi), osuus (fi)
• French: pourcentage (fr) m
• German: prozentualer Anteil (de) m
• Greek: ποσοστό (el) (posostó) n

• Italian: percentuale (it) f
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Spanish: porcentaje (es) m

informal: advantage

• Finnish: hyöty (fi)

• Polish: korzyść (pl) f

Related terms

• percent
• percentile
• percentage point
• percentagewise