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PER CENTUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)
Synonyms:
pct; per centum; percent; percentage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("per centum" is a kind of...):
proportion (the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "per centum"):
absentee rate (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)
