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A percentage is a portion of a whole expressed as a number between 0 and 100 rather than as a fraction. All of something is 100 percent, half of it is fifty percent, none of something is zero percent.

To determine a percentage, you divide the portion of the whole by the whole itself and multiply by 100. So if you just ate two pieces of an eight-piece pie, and you want to know what percentage of the pie you consumed, you'd first divide 2 by 8 which equals .25. Then multiply .25 times 100 and get 25 percent. A percentage can also mean a portion of something but only when it has to do with numbers. When you buy furniture, the salesman gets a percentage of what you spend.

DEFINITIONS OF: percentage

n a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

Synonyms:: pct, per centum, percent

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the percentage of workers who do not report to work; occupancy rate
the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time; vacancy rate
the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time; unemployment rate
the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date; hospital occupancy
occupancy rate for hospitals; hotel occupancy
occupancy rate for hotels

Type of:: proportion
the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole

n assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

Synonyms:: part, portion, share

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a portion of something (especially money); dispensation
a share that has been dispensed or distributed; dole
a share of money or food or clothing that has been charitably given; way
a portion of something divided into shares; ration
a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity); allowance
an amount allowed or granted (as during a given period); piece, slice
a share of something; split
a promised or claimed share of loot or money; interest, stake
(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something; profit sharing
a system in which employees receive a share of the net profits of the business; cut
a share of the profits; allocation, allotment
a share set aside for a specific purpose; grubstake
funds advanced to a prospector or to someone starting a business in return for a share of the profits; controlling interest
ownership of more than 50% of a corporation's voting shares; insurable interest
an interest in a person or thing that will support the issuance of an insurance policy; an interest in the survival of the insured or in the preservation of the thing that is insured; vested interest
(law) an interest in which there is a fixed right to present or future enjoyment and that can be conveyed to another; security interest
any interest in a property that secures the payment of an obligation; terminable interest
an interest in property that terminates under specific conditions; undivided interest, undivided right
the interest in property owned by tenants whereby each tenant has an equal right to enjoy the entire property; fee
an interest in land capable of being inherited; rake-off, vigorish
a percentage (of winnings or loot or profit) taken by an operator or gangster; reallocation
a share that has been allocated again; quota
a proportional share assigned to each participant; privy purse
allowance for a monarch's personal expenses; equity
the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation; reversion
(law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee); right
(frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing

Type of:: assets
anything of material value or usefulness that is owned by a person or company

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