Synonym: pct, per centum, percentage. Similar words: per cent, percentage, fierce, coerce, pierce, perceive, commerce, perceived. Meaning: [pər'sent /pə'-] 
n. a proportion multiplied by 100.
n. a proportion multiplied by 100. 
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31) Only 18 percent of those surveyed opposed the idea.
32) Harkin won 74 percent of the votes cast.
33) Labour was top of the poll with forty-six percent.
34) About thirty percent of the country's children were malnourished.
35) He paid 20 percent down.
36) We can discount ten percent for you .
37) After-tax profit fell by 28 percent.
38) Inflation is close to 7 percent.
39) Seventy percent of the country's population practises subsistence agriculture.
40) The eleven percent loan has no up-front costs.
41) The party garnered 70 percent of the vote.
42) Married men earn 70 percent more than single men.
43) Britain's retail sales jumped 3.2 percent in April.
44) Sales are up by thirty-six percent. How about that?
45) Thomsons have a 48 percent market share.
46) The usual mark-up on clothes is about 20 percent.
47) Everyone on the team gave a hundred percent.
48) The decrease in sales was almost 20 percent.
49) 40 percent of the prisoners lack any qualifications .
50) Retail sales grew just 3.8 percent last year.
51) Prices have gone up 61 percent since deregulation.
52) All bills are discounted at ten percent.
53) 80 percent of the population voted.
54) 100 percent airline security is a practical impossibility.
55) Women comprise 51 percent of the population of France.
56) Black unemployment rate jumped to 17 percent last year.
57) Prices were bumped up by 10 percent last week.
58) 60 percent of the sample answered negatively.
59) Fifteen percent will be charged on your taxable income.
60) Today African-Americans are 12 percent of the population.
More similar words: per cent, percentage, fierce, coerce, pierce, perceive, commerce, perceived, perception, intercede, intercept, perceptible, apperception, intercessor, larcenous, Cent., scent, enforcement, centre, ascent, decent, accent, center, recent, nascent, descent, central, century, adjacent, indecent.