percentage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An amount expressed as a part of a total of one hundred.

   A high percentage of teenagers own a smartphone.

2. 2
   noun

   A share of the sales or profits that someone receives.

   The agent takes a percentage of every deal she closes.

3. 3
   noun

   Benefit or advantage to be gained from doing something.

   There was no percentage in arguing with him any longer.

From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate).

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