percentage

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:54:11

Per*cent"age (?), n. [Per cent + -age, as in average. See Per, and Cent.] Com.

A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.

 

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