Percentage

Noun

 * 1) 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.
 * 1) A share of the profits.
 * She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
 * 1)  Benefit or advantage.
 * There was no percentage in staying at home.

Adjectives for Percentage
unknown; doubtful; high.

Verbs for Percentage
calculate—; check—; compute—; cut—; deduct—; demand—; derive—; draw—; exact —; extract—; fix—; reduce—; stabilize—; yield—; —abates; —ascends; —exceeds; —mounts; —staggers.

Thesaurus
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-off

Etymology
From per centum, "for every hundred", + -age.

Translations

 * Catalan: percentatge
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: porcentaxe
 * German: Prozentsatz
 * Greek:, εκατοστιαία αναλογία


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: percentagem
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: procentsats, procenthalt, andel


 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German: prozentualer
 * Greek:


 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:


 * Polish: korzyść

Related terms

 * per cent
 * percentile
 * percentage point
 * percentagewise