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%age

%age is the abbreviation of percentage.

Meaning of percentage

Noun

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.
    • A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
    Synonyms:
    centage
  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.

Forms of %age

plural%ages

Questions about %age

What is %age the abbreviation of?
%age is the abbreviation of percentage.

Words near %age in the dictionary

  1. $h!ttiest
  2. $h!tting
  3. $h!tty
  4. $hit
  5. %
  6. %age
  7. %ages
  8. %ile
  9. %iles
  10. %p
  11. %ps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: %age (page history and authors); percentage (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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