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WordBand 4.5–5.5Core (NGSL)
percent
/pəˈsɛnt/
adverb
one one-hundredth of a whole
- “He's in the top one percent of students in his class.”Tatoeba
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Source: New General Service List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)