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Per centum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    percent US, dated

    "On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum..."

  2. 2
    a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred); ten percent wordnet

Etymology

Latin per + centum

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