per cent
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Noun[change]
- You use per cent show the number of parts out of one hundred. The symbol for per cent is %.
- The cost of gas has increased seven per cent in the last month.
Usage[change]
Verbs should agree with the noun to which per cent refers, not with per cent itself. For example,
- One per cent of politicians are (not is) honest.
- Twenty per cent of the water was (not were) dirty.