Noun: percentage
| Singular | percentage |
| Plural | percentages |
Sample Sentences
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A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.
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The replacement percentages are based largely on household spending data from the Department of Labor's Consumer Expenditure Survey. [2017 November 29, Walter Updegrave, “How much income will you actually need in retirement?”, in CNN Money, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2025:]
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Kramer said California’s legislation is weak compared to the laws in Norway and other European countries, which require a certain percentage of women on boards. [2018 September 30, Julia Carpenter and Jackie Wattles, “California has a new law: No more all-male boards”, in CNN Business:]
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She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
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There was no percentage in staying at home.
Nouns inflected like percentage
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From percent, from Latin per centum (“for every hundred”), + -age (suffix indicating a rate). See: Latin Nouns '
per centum'.
Verbs referencing "percentage"
Dutch Nouns
percentage.