percent

Definition

For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion).

Etymology

From New Latin per centum (“by the hundred”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "In Sichuan the rates were much higher. In Kaixian county, a close examination by a team sent by the provincial party committee at the time concluded that in Fengle commune, where 17 per cent of the population had perished in less than a year, up to 65 per cent of the victims had died because they were beaten, punished with food deprivation or forced into committing suicide."
• "Twelve percent of the world’s population now relies directly or indirectly on the fisheries industry."