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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun percentage has 2 senses
- percentage(n = noun.linkdef) pct, per centum, percent - a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); Array is a kind of proportion
- percentage(n = noun.possession) part, portion, share - assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" is a part of earnings, lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits
has particulars: absentee rate, occupancy rate, vacancy rate, unemployment rate
has particulars: tranche, dispensation, dole, way, ration, allowance, piece, slice, split, interest, stake, profit sharing, cut, allocation, allotment
is a kind of assets
OXFORD DICTIONARY
percentage, n.
1 a rate or proportion per cent.
2 a proportion.
3 colloq. personal benefit or advantage.
1 a rate or proportion per cent.
2 a proportion.
3 colloq. personal benefit or advantage.
THESAURUS
percentage
abatement, absolute interest, adjunct, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, agio, allotment, allowance, appropriateness, arithmetical proportion, avail, bait, bank discount, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, breakage, bribe, budget, capital gains, carrot, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, chunk, claim, cleanup, clear profit, commission, common, component, concession, contingent, contingent interest, continued fraction, convenience, cross section, cut, deal, decency, deduction, depreciation, desirability, destiny, detachment, detail, discount, dividend, dividends, division, dole, drawback, earnings, easement, encouragement, end, equal share, equitable interest, equity, estate, expedience, expediency, fate, feasibility, fillip, filthy lucre, fitness, fittingness, fraction, fruitfulness, gain, gains, geometric ratio, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, half, halver, harmonic proportion, helping, hoard, holding, improper fraction, incentive, incitement, income, inducement, installment, interest, invitation, item, kickback, killing, limitation, lot, lucre, lure, makings, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, neat profit, net, net profit, opportuneness, paper profits, parcel, part, particular, payment, pelf, penalty, penalty clause, percent, perk, perks, perquisite, persuasive, pickings, piece, point, politicness, portion, premium, price reduction, price-cut, proceeds, profit, profitability, profits, proportion, propriety, provocation, prudence, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, quotum, rake-off, random sample, rate, ratio, ration, rebate, rebatement, receipts, reduction, refund, remainder, return, returns, reward, right, right of entry, rightness, rollback, rule of three, salvage, sample, sampling, seasonableness, section, sector, seemliness, segment, service, setoff, settlement, share, slice, small share, stake, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, stock, store, strict settlement, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, suitability, sweetener, sweetening, take, take-in, tare, time discount, timeliness, title, trade discount, tret, trust, underselling, use, usefulness, value, vested interest, wealth, whet, winnings, wisdom, worth, worthwhileness, write-offROGET THESAURUS
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Number
N number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent, numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible, numerically, modulo.Discount
N discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount, discounting, at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business.
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