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Definition of Per centum
1. Noun. A proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred).
Generic synonyms: Proportion
Specialized synonyms: Absentee Rate, Occupancy Rate, Vacancy Rate, Unemployment Rate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Per Centum
Literary usage of Per centum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Manufactures of paper, or of which paper is the component material of chief value,
not specially provided for in this net, thirty-live per centum ad ..."
2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"474. ad valorem : Provided, That on all articles made of fur, the value of Proviso,
which shall not exceed twenty dollars, a tax of two per centum only ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1891)
"Precious stones of all kinds, cut but not set, fen per centum nd valorem ; if
set, and not sp;cially provided for in thia act, twenty-five per centum ad ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"On all manufactures of silk, or of wliich silk is the component material of chief
value, not otherwise provided for, fifty per centum ad valorem. ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"companies are assessed eight tenths of one per centum on gross premiums, and
bank-stocks, mortgages, and loans of different kinds pay four per centum on ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1867)
"On endless belts or felts for paper or printing machines, twenty cents per pound
and thirty five per centum ad valorem. On clothing ready made, ..."
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