percentage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=cent=age

CIDE DICTIONARY

percentage, n. [Per cent + -age, as in average. See Per, and Cent.].

 A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

percentage, n.
1 a rate or proportion per cent.
2 a proportion.
3 colloq. personal benefit or advantage.

THESAURUS

percentage

abatement, absolute interest, adjunct, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, agio, allotment, allowance, appropriateness, arithmetical proportion, avail, bait, bank discount, behalf, behoof, beneficialness, benefit, big end, bigger half, bit, bite, breakage, bribe, budget, capital gains, carrot, cash discount, chain discount, charge-off, chunk, claim, cleanup, clear profit, commission, common, component, concession, contingent, contingent interest, continued fraction, convenience, cross section, cut, deal, decency, deduction, depreciation, desirability, destiny, detachment, detail, discount, dividend, dividends, division, dole, drawback, earnings, easement, encouragement, end, equal share, equitable interest, equity, estate, expedience, expediency, fate, feasibility, fillip, filthy lucre, fitness, fittingness, fraction, fruitfulness, gain, gains, geometric ratio, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, half, halver, harmonic proportion, helping, hoard, holding, improper fraction, incentive, incitement, income, inducement, installment, interest, invitation, item, kickback, killing, limitation, lot, lucre, lure, makings, measure, meed, mess, modicum, moiety, neat profit, net, net profit, opportuneness, paper profits, parcel, part, particular, payment, pelf, penalty, penalty clause, percent, perk, perks, perquisite, persuasive, pickings, piece, point, politicness, portion, premium, price reduction, price-cut, proceeds, profit, profitability, profits, proportion, propriety, provocation, prudence, quadrant, quantum, quarter, quota, quotum, rake-off, random sample, rate, ratio, ration, rebate, rebatement, receipts, reduction, refund, remainder, return, returns, reward, right, right of entry, rightness, rollback, rule of three, salvage, sample, sampling, seasonableness, section, sector, seemliness, segment, service, setoff, settlement, share, slice, small share, stake, stimulation, stimulative, stimulus, stock, store, strict settlement, subdivision, subgroup, subspecies, suitability, sweetener, sweetening, take, take-in, tare, time discount, timeliness, title, trade discount, tret, trust, underselling, use, usefulness, value, vested interest, wealth, whet, winnings, wisdom, worth, worthwhileness, write-off

ROGET THESAURUS

percentage

Number

N number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent, numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible, numerically, modulo.

Discount

N discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance, qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio, percentage, rebate, rebatement, backwardation, contango, salvage, tare and tret, sale, bargain, half price, price war, wholesale, wholesale price, dealer's price, trade price, coupon, discount coupon, cents-off coupon, store coupon, manufacturer's coupon, double coupon discount, triple coupon discount, discounting, at a discount, below par, at wholesale, have a friend in the business.