percentage

[per-sen-tij] / pərˈsɛn tɪdʒ /

NOUN

portion, allotment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bonus chunk fee interest percent proportion rate ratio royalty

STRONG

allowance bite commission corner cut discount division duty holdout juice payoff piece points quota section slice split taste winnings

WEAK

piece of the action

Antonyms

STRONGEST

whole

STRONG

increase juncture

Example Sentences

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Needed: the most that we would pay for that near-term straddle, with the price of the straddle expressed as a percentage of the underlying stock price.

From MarketWatch

What also weighed on sales growth was that food inflation “moderated” during the quarter, down 0.9 percentage points from the previous quarter.

From MarketWatch

A favorite futurist parlor game involves estimating the percentage of online content currently generated by machines.

From The Wall Street Journal

Meanwhile, the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut in June, the first meeting likely to be led by Chairman-nominee Kevin Warsh, has fallen by around 20 percentage points over the past month.

From Barron's

The brokerage also cut its gross margin assumption for 2026 by 2 percentage points.

From The Wall Street Journal

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