PER CENTUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does per centum mean? 

• PER CENTUM (noun)
  The noun PER CENTUM has 1 sense:

1. a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

  Familiarity information: PER CENTUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PER CENTUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

pct; per centum; percent; percentage

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)