percentage

English

Etymology

From Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
• IPA^(key): /pɚˈsɛntɪd͡ʒ/
• Hyphenation: per‧cent‧age

• Audio (US):

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Noun

percentage (plural percentages)

1. The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. (informal) Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

Usage notes

• A percentage is often denoted by the character (%).

Ex. 50% denotes 50 per cent.

Derived terms

• baker's percentage
• field goal percentage
• free throw percentage
• on-base percentage
• percentage point
• percentage rate
• percentagewise
• slugging percentage
• subpercentage

 

Related terms

• percent
• percentile

Translations

part of a whole

• Arabic: اَلنِّسْبَة اَلْمِئَوِيَّة f (an-nisba l-miʾawiyya)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百分比 (zh) (bǎifēnbǐ), 百分率 (zh) (bǎifēnlǜ)

• Czech: procento (cs) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: protsent
• Finnish: prosenttiosuus, prosentti (fi), prosenttiluku (fi)
• French: pourcentage (fr) m
• Galician: porcentaxe
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Prozentsatz m
• Greek: ποσοστό (el) n (posostó), εκατοστιαία αναλογία f (ekatostiaía analogía)
• Ido: procento (io)
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• Italian: percentuale (it) f
• Japanese: 百分率 (ひゃくぶんりつ, hyakubunritsu), パーセンテージ (pāsentēji), 百分比 (ja) (ひゃくぶんひ, hyakubunhi)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 백분율 (ko) (baekbunyul), 백분비 (ko) (baekbunbi)
• Malay: peratusan
• Maori: ōrautanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Ossetian: процент (procent)
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Portuguese: percentagem (pt) m
• Russian: проце́нт (ru) m (procént), проце́нтное отноше́ние n (procéntnoje otnošénije)
• Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
• Swedish: procentsats (sv) c, procenthalt c, andel (sv) c
• Tagalog: kabahagdanan
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: відсо́ток (vidsótok)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

share of the profits

• Catalan: percentatge (ca) m
• Finnish: prosenttiosuus, prosentti (fi), osuus (fi)
• French: pourcentage (fr) m
• German: prozentualer Anteil m
• Greek: ποσοστό (el) n (posostó)
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• Italian: percentuale (it) f
• Polish: procent (pl) m
• Spanish: porcentaje (es) m
• Tagalog: kabahagdanan
• Ukrainian: відсо́ток (vidsótok), до́ля (uk) (dólja)

informal: advantage

• Finnish: hyöty (fi)
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• Polish: korzyść (pl) f