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centages

centages is the plural of centage.

Meaning of centage

Noun

centage (plural centages)

  1. (rare) 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

Questions about centages

What is centages the plural of?
Centages is the plural of centage.

Words near centages in the dictionary

  1. cent.
  2. Cent. Afr. Rep.
  3. centage
  4. centagenarian
  5. centagenarians
  6. centages
  7. cental
  8. centals
  9. centanafadine
  10. centanamycin
  11. Centanni

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