per
- adposition
- /pɜr/
- What if it's time spent on the app per dollar spent?
Final step is to leave on skin as per self tanning product directions.
- Final step is to leave on skin as per self tanning product directions.
- They change, you know, they change per situation, per area of operation.
- No rate cuts per the base case of the committee.
- So it seems like that's been modified per request I'm sure.
- I didn't pick it per the name.
Examples
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The concert tickets cost $50 per person.
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Currently, the PBGC charges a basic premium equal to $16 per year, per participant.
Academic text (1990) -
It's just simply you pay per closed lead already.
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Ask her, ask her how much you cost per hour.
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So we can measure that at like the parts per million level essentially.
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No rate cuts per the base case of the committee.
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Three million dollars in Swiss accounts per our agreement.
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The charge is 22,000 per night.
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A woman may have to work 70 or more hours per week, which may conflict with family responsibilities.
Academic text (2008) -
You may submit up to two entries per person by letter, fax, or email.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
Average amount of money each person gets in a place during a year
- Specialized
A unit that measures pressure equal to one pound of force on one square inch
A measure of speed that shows how many kilometers something moves in one second
- Specialized
A unit that shows how many small pieces of information called bits are sent every second
- Specialized
A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second
- Archaic
A unit equal to one thousand cycles per second, now called kilohertz
- Archaic
A unit equal to one million cycles per second for measuring radio frequencies
- Specialized
A measure of how fast a computer does one million math calculations each second
- Specialized
A unit for measuring how fast a computer processor runs, equal to one million instructions per second
- Specialized
A measure of computer speed equal to one trillion math calculations every second
Surface Forms
Etymology
Per comes from the Latin word per meaning 'through' or 'by'. It keeps the idea of using a way or method, so per email means 'by' or 'through' email.