per

Meanings

1. 1
   prep

   For each.

   Admission is £10 per person.

2. 2
   prep

   In each, used when expressing rates or ratios.

   The car was travelling at sixty miles per hour.

3. 3
   prep

   According to or in accordance with.

   I parked the car at the curb per your request.

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

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