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per-cent

per-cent is the alternative form of percent.

Meaning of percent

Prepositional phrase

  1. Per hundred.
    • By how many percent did the cancer survival rate for breast cancer increase by 2008?2014, Alan Tussy, Diane Koenig, Basic Mathematics for College Students with Early Integers, →ISBN, page 637

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Questions about per-cent

What is per-cent the alternative form of?
Per-cent is the alternative form of percent.

Words near per-cent in the dictionary

  1. per usual
  2. per vagina
  3. per vaginam
  4. per'lous
  5. per-
  6. per-cent
  7. per-centage
  8. per-centages
  9. per-rectal
  10. per.
  11. Pera

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