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per-centage

per-centage is the archaic form 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 per-centage

pluralper-centages

Origin of per-centage

From per cent + -age.

Questions about per-centage

What is per-centage the archaic form of?
Per-centage is the archaic form of percentage.

Words near per-centage in the dictionary

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

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