per

Meanings

1. 1
   prep

   For each.

   Admission is £10 per person.

2. 2
   prep

   To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

   12 inches per foot

3. 3
   prep

   By the, by means of the, via the, through the.

   Introduce the endoscope per nasum.

4. 4
   prep

   In accordance with, as per

   I parked my car at the curb per your request.

5. 5
   prep

   According to

   Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources

6. 6
   pron

   They (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

   This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?

7. 7
   pron

   Them (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.

   This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?

8. 8
   adj

   Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.

   Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.

Etymology

Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)