centage
centage noun: rate by the hundred; percentage.
Noun
centage (plural centages)
- Rate by the hundred; percentage.
- It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income.1848, Thomas Chalmers, Miscellanies: Embracing Reviews, Essays, and Addresses, page 527
- If he was entitled to centage at all upon the execution, he could have it only on the value of the property levied on, if the property was not sold, and the amount of the sale if the property was sold, and was not entitled to centage on the whole amount of the execution, if it exceeded the value of...1886, Richard Smith Coxe (Reporter), William Sandford Pennington (Reporter), Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of The State of New Jersey
centage meaning in Tamil
centage in Tamil
- நூற்று மேனி
Forms of centage
| plural | centages |
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Origin of centage
From Latin centum (“hundred”) + -age (forming nouns indicating a rate). Compare later percentage.
Questions about centage
- What does centage mean?
- Centage means rate by the hundred; percentage.
- What is centage in Tamil?
- Centage in Tamil is நூற்று மேனி. See Centage meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is centage?
- Centage is a noun.
- What is the plural of centage?
- The plural of centage is centages.
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