Centage
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Rate by the hundred; percentage. rare
"It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income."
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More examples"It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income."
Etymology
From Latin centum (“hundred”) + -age (forming nouns indicating a rate). Compare later percentage.
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