percent

Definition

Examples

Sales increased by twelve percent compared with the same month last year.

Synonyms

• percentagea proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

Collocations

• Easy fifty percent off sale
  describing fifty percent off sale (the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five)
• Medium increase sales by ten percent
  to make or become greater regarding sales by ten percent
• Hard inflation rate surged two percent
  describing inflation rate surged two percent (a general and progressive increase in prices)
• Very Hard give one hundred and ten percent effort
  to provide or present something regarding one hundred and ten percent effort