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per

US /pɝ/

preposition Foundation · A2 Tài chính & ngân sách

Definition

the quality, condition, or instance of per

Tested in TOEIC business and workplace contexts.

Examples

The hotel charges ninety dollars per night for a double room.

Collocations

  • Easy miles per hour
    describing miles per hour (a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters)
  • Medium as per the agreed contract terms
    describing as per the agreed contract terms (a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar)
  • Hard pro-rata expense per capita
    a collocation phrase: pro-rata expense per capita
  • Very Hard cost per acquisition benchmark
    to cost per acquisition benchmark, meaning to be priced at

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