percentage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.

   A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.

2. 2
   noun

   A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.

   She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.

3. 3
   noun

   Benefit or advantage.

   There was no percentage in staying at home.

4. 4
   noun

   assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

5. 5
   noun

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

Etymology

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