Percentage is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PERCENTAGE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a part of a whole expressed in hundredths
• a rate, number, or amount in each hundred
• any proportion or share in relation to a whole
• an amount, such as an allowance or commission, that is a proportion of a larger sum of money
• personal benefit or advantage
• A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.
• a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a part of a whole expressed in hundredths; the result obtained by multiplying a number by a percent

Words related to PERCENTAGE

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Words that contain PERCENTAGE

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How to use PERCENTAGE in a sentence

• The retail of the brandy by officials, who are paid by a percentage on the consumption, did a good deal to injure the popular respect for the government.
• A certain percentage is levied on the price of the goods at the port of shipment in a foreign country.
• Now they wondered what percentage they would make in their baseball examination.
• He lent money willingly, and on very favourable terms of payment apparently, but, by some curious method of reckoning, made them mount to an incredible percentage.
• It is a popular delusion that every Brahmin is a priest, when the fact is that they are so numerous that not more than a small percentage is employed in religious functions.
• There has always been an excuse, and there has always been a percentage of truth in the excuse.
• During quite a large percentage of days, however, we had bright sunshine, which, even with the temperature well below freezing, made everything look bright and cheerful.
• The procedure adopted varies much in different divisions, according to the population and the percentage of charges brought up.
• The same percentage on a hundred farms would amount to a large sum.
• I have saved money, and own shares in the Royal Bank of Melbourne, besides two good houses that are paying me a large percentage.
• It is deplorable, sir, that in both sections a larger percentage of the vote is not regularly cast, but more inexplicable that this should be so in New England than in the South.
• If the more celebrated men alone be considered, it is found that the percentage increases so that about one in three of them has a close relative who is also distinguished.
• The rescue homes in the large cities are full, and often a large percentage of their occupants are from the country.
• A large percentage of facts was gained from gossip and hearsay about those long since dead.
• No charge is exacted for its use, but if an admission fee is collected, a liberal percentage of the proceeds must go to some worthy charity.
• Some of the best and most skilled men had an efficiency of over 80 per cent, but quite a large percentage of them were down below 50 per cent.
• But the stones on its slopes, unlike those of Stone Mountain, contained a small percentage of iron.
• This percentage is higher for the boys than for the girls by a difference of 6 per cent.
• The percentage of pupils graduating who entered at the age of 12 is approximately four times that of pupils who entered at the age of 16.
• He had passed his examinations, most unexpectedly to himself, with a respectable percentage to spare.
• These were said to have made the finest guns in the Rebel service, because of the large percentage of silver contained in the metal.
• Only a still smaller percentage can read it after they are thirty.
• The high percentage of disease and degeneracy among the English criminal population may be seen in other ways.
• The percentage of Democratic losses in the congressional districts of the North was sufficient to leave Douglas with hardly any supporters in Congress from his own section.

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