percent
(redirected from per cent)Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Related to per cent: percentage
Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Mentioned in
?
References in classic literature
?
This one na- tion, which owns six per cent of the earth and is five per cent of the human race, has SEVENTY per cent of the telephones.
You could draw my pension, and repay yourselves at the rate, say, of L500 a year, taking your five per cent interest as well."
"What will sixty-five per cent of the gate receipts be?" Rivera demanded.
"A capital profit, -- four hundred per cent., Planchet."
If I could get twenty or thirty pounds to begin with, I could pay five per cent for it, and then I could gradually make a little capital of my own, and do without a loan."
But the twenty-five per cent. plan did not work well at all.
'and the Directors have every reason to believe that ten per cent., or more, will be ultimately realised to the shareholders by the hotel.'
Of course we can't afford to take these structures down under a bonus of five hundred per cent upon the prime cost of our lot and plaster.
"The commission is usually one and a half; will you have two -- three -- five per cent, or even more?
The assistant is even civil and attends to him at once, to the great indignation of the lady in the next box, who, however, sarcastically observes that she don't mind being kept waiting "if it is a regular customer." Why, from the pleasant and businesslike manner in which the transaction is carried out, it might be a large purchase in the three per cents. Yet what a piece of work a man makes of his first "pop." A boy popping his first question is confidence itself compared with him.
A five-per cent safe investment had no attraction for him; but to risk millions in sharp, harsh skirmish, standing to lose everything or to win fifty or a hundred per cent, was the savor of life to him.
"Three hundred, say at six per cent.--that'd be six cents on the dollar, sixty cents on ten dollars, six dollars on the hundred, on three hundred eighteen dollars.
Legal browser
?
- ▲
- penological
- Penology
- penscript
- pensio
- pension
- Pensioner
- Pensions Regulator
- pensive
- pensiveness
- Pent Road
- penumbra
- penurious
- penury
- Peonage
- Peonia
- people
- people delegated
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
- peopled
- peoples of the earth
- pepper
- Per
- Per and cui
- per annum
- per capita
- per cent
- per contra
- per curiam
- per day
- per diem
- Per fraudem
- per head
- per incuriam
- Per infortunium
- Per minas
- per miscere
- Per my et per tout
- per pro
- Per Quod
- Per rerum naturam
- per se
- per stirpes
- Per varius actus
- per vim factus
- perambulate
- Perambulatione facienda
- perceivable
- perceivable dissimilarity
- perceive
- perceive as true
- perceive differences
- ▼
Full browser
?
- ▲
- Per Capita Energy Consumption
- Per Capita Family Income
- Per capita GDP
- Per capita GDP
- Per capita GDP
- Per capita GDP
- Per Capita Gross Domestic Product
- per capita income
- per capita income
- per capita income
- per capita income
- per capita income
- Per Capita Incomes
- Per Capita Incomes
- Per Capita Incomes
- Per Capita Incomes
- Per Capita Oil Demand
- Per Capita Own-Source Revenue
- Per Capita per Annum
- Per Capita Per Month
- Per Capita Personal Income
- per capita rate
- Per Capita Real Income Growth
- Per Capita State Domestic Product
- Per Capita Total Expenditure
- Per Capita Waste Generation
- per caput
- per caput
- per caput
- per caput
- per cent
- Per Cent Mille
- Per cent sign
- Per cent sign
- per centum
- per centum
- per centum
- per centum
- Per Channel Optical Performance Monitoring
- Per Channel Use
- Per Child per Night
- per Class Queuing
- per clock
- per clock
- per clock
- Per Column Centimetre
- Per Column Inch
- Per Column Inch
- per contiguum
- per continuum
- per contra
- per contra
- Per Contract Per Month
- Per Copy Royalty
- Per Credit Hour
- Per Cubic Foot
- Per Curiam
- Per curiam decision
- per curiams
- Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
- Per Daniel Atterbom
- ▼