eighty-two
- numeral
- /ˈeɪti tu/
- Grandma was going to turn eighty-two on Friday.
- eighty-two percent
- eighty-two hundred
Examples
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Fourteen letters to editors: a grand total of eighty-two pages.
Fiction book (1990) -
So far, under all of the FTA and all of the NAFTA, we have had about eighty-two judicial review cases.
Academic text (1997) -
There were eighty-two men from that team who were lost to the war effort.
Academic text (2014) -
Eighty-two percent of respondents work in private practice and 18% work in an academic setting.
Academic text (2007) -
Eighty-two percent of accidents occur within twenty miles from home.
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The collection contains eighty-two photographic negatives and seven proofs.
Academic text (2010) -
Eighty-two percent of kindergarten teachers reported recording 75% or more of their contacts with families.
Academic text (2005) -
Canada's maximum acceptable level for ground-level ozone is currently eighty-two parts per billion.
Academic text (1992) -
The final sample of eighty-two infants consisted of thirty-three males and forty-nine females.
Academic text (2004) -
The temperature was a warm eighty-two degrees yesterday.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word eighty-two is made from eighty and two, so it means 'eighty and two' or '80 plus 2'. Think of it as 'eight tens plus two', which explains why it is 82.