Definition of Percentage

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Definition of Percentage
	Percentage A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. Related Definitions: Allowance, Cent, Certain, Commission, Discount, Duty, Hundred, Interest, Of, On, Or, Per, Rate, The

Percentage Quotations

The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%.
Jack Welch

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
Thomas Sowell

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
Hank Aaron

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.
Heinrich Himmler

Today, the US spends less on defense as a percentage of our economy than we did at any time since he Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. For the world's only superpower, that is an invitation to very serious trouble.
Steve Forbes

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, has doubled since 1985.
Serj Tankian

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.
Don Shula

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others.
Jim Bakker

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.
Michael Stipe

Percentage Translations

percentage in Afrikaans is persent
percentage in Dutch is rente, procent, percent
percentage in French is taux, pourcentage
percentage in German is Prozent, Prozentsatz
percentage in Portuguese is porcentagem
percentage in Spanish is porciento, porcentaje
percentage in Swedish is procenttal

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