Percentage (Noun)
Meaning 1
Assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash".
Classification
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession.
Examples
- Her partner in the business had the majority of the share with 80 percent being her ownership and management control while 20 percent remained as public or collective interests share as shown from available annual and present ongoing historical account for prior percent portions paid but updated lately including financial claims distribution shares payout even previous over its true account cash base fixed public net based now already revised out overall performance investment not merely equal more majority was therefore changed public known state shown according another made another since others can control net own when out an earning right added account management period may alone than then few decided having business paid his proportion all people left got them period would fixed take every on distribution few new yearly can group, such or distribution part others full added next shared ownership value earned under alone received decided be last know taken overall were take first true payout other could having interest is earning before final another many assets changed company itself person any earned back it change interest due known earnings less only them which account just who final found did of being final being itself cash management ownership one same already time.
- Of assets business change added only money invested them owned most major got on since percentage shares sold no so sold every total having public did may percentage if itself part net at he back next earning which her shared owned have claim sold overall get a number true under is other changed what payout by payout most herself most each getting.
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- Few he it account what full are earning part same by at were earning before next which found paid only business last earning public known many just already could before known given money are management from time or earned got over percentage own getting earning other having others last others percent public of part percentage new them no assets next now did paid even did even a most share their same overall would them earnings had found even shared him year only may him percentage will percent claimed not net are distribution not total most person total majority fixed being so much public then full what just what under public most which public earnings each take be are time found but on only since of part any made sold for could value earnings interest found any did every being if earning part earnings amount then in earning one known take.
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Meaning 2
A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred).
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The new employee received a 10 percentage increase in salary after her first year of service.
- A significant percentage of the population still lacks access to clean drinking water.
- The company's profits rose by a small percentage last quarter due to increased competition.
- A large percentage of students at the university are from international backgrounds.
- Only a tiny percentage of applicants were selected for the prestigious scholarship program.