percent

Out of every hundred; used after a number to show an amount or share.

• Tickets are ten percent cheaper today.
• Sales rose by five percent.
• Only twenty percent of students agreed.

Similar words: per hundred

Common phrases: ten percent off, fifty percent more, twenty percent less

One part out of a hundred, written as the symbol %.

• One percent of a hundred is one.
• The bank charges interest of six percent.
• What percent of the land is forest?

How to use it: number + percent of something (Thirty percent of the class passed the test.)

Common phrases: one percent, ten percent, percent of something