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- Practice the English pronunciation of percent with real speech in context.
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from asthma, disease, pneumonia, in fact, about 15 to 20 percent of these are children
- Definition summary
- For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). [from 16th c.]
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How to pronounce percent
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from asthma, disease, pneumonia, in fact, about 15 to 20 percent of these are children
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A Deep Dive Into “percent”
Meaning
- [Adverb]
- For every hundred (used with preceding numeral to form a noun phrase expressing a proportion). [from 16th c.]
- [Noun]
- A percentage, a proportion (especially per hundred).
- One part per hundred; one percent, hundredth. [from 19th c.]
- The percent sign, %.
- An annuity or security with a certain fixed and guaranteed annual percentage rate of return or percentage dividend.
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