one percent
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- noun
- /wʌn pərˈsɛnt/
:
uno por ciento
- And like its sister operation, the Targeted Search has completed far less than one percent of its intended observations.
- less than one percent
- only one percent
- about one percent
Examples
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We always knew it was only a one percent chance anyone could ever pull something like this off.
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So Africa produces less than one percent of the world's industrial output.
Academic text (1992) -
It's a neurological condition that affects only one percent of the population.
Fiction book (2002) -
And one percent of the company's profits in perpetuity.
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Global growth was stuck at one percent of GDP, and no one in Europe dared to budge it.
Academic text (1992) -
In the latest survey, only one percent of participants expressed dissatisfaction with the service.
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The report revealed that one percent of the population controls over fifty percent of the wealth.
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During the election, the candidate received just one percent of the total votes cast.
Synonyms
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One of one hundred equal parts of something
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One of one hundred equal parts written as 1/100
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition 'one' + 'percent' (1% of something) is transparent, so a learner will understand it denotes a tiny proportion. However the specific socio-economic sense 'the wealthiest one percent' is a conventionalized political/social label that cannot be fully derived from the constituents without prior exposure, so the meaning is partially but not wholly predictable.
Etymology
One percent shows one and percent working together to mean one part out of a hundred; imagine a cake cut into 100 equal slices and you have one slice, so it means 'one part out of a hundred'.