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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121) In 1987, McDonald's captured 19 percent of all fast-food sales.
122) Nearly 10 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by ice.
123) There 50 percent or more of the population is illiterate.
124) He only got a plurality on November 3rd,[www.Sentencedict.com] just 49 percent.
125) Wages have fallen by more than twenty percent during the past two months.
126) The rate of inflation is running at about 2.7 percent.
127) They achieved their goal of increasing sales by five percent.
128) The remaining 30 percent of each army will be placed under UN control.
129) They had to sell off 10 percent of all underutilized farmland.
130) A 10 percent service charge is added in lieu of tipping.
131) Streamlining management could save at least 10 percent in costs.
132) 65 percent of the 1987 budget went for nuclear weapons research and production.
133) We aim to capture eight percent of the UK wine market.
134) There was a proportion of research, which I reckoned at not more than 30 percent, that was basic research.
135) Retail sales dipped 6/10ths of a percent last month, largely because Americans were buying fewer cars.
136) Only six percent of police time is occupied with criminal incidents.
137) Twenty eight percent of the federal budget is spent on defense.
138) About 80 percent of the graduates advanced to senior high schools.
139) 60 percent of the respondents said they disapproved of the president's performance.
140) Disney will retain a 51 percent controlling interest in the venture.
141) Most shopping centers have knocked ten percent off the price.
142) Only 39 percent of patients were seen within four weeks of referral.
143) In California, Hispanics make up 19.2 percent of the population.
144) Their share of the market dropped to 50 percent this year.
145) 85 percent of all American households owe money on mortgages.
146) Under the new rules, some factories will cut emissions by as much as 90 percent.
147) Illiteracy rates are still thought to stand above 50 percent.
148) The most serious form of skin cancer has a 30 percent fatality rate.
149) Real estate stocks pulled down total returns of 35.7 percent.
150) Less than 1 percent of the men in any Muslim country are polygamous.
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.