fifty percent
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- noun
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cincuenta por ciento
- In the recent survey, fifty percent of the respondents preferred option A.
- more than fifty percent
- approximately fifty percent
- Fifty percent of respondents
Examples
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At best, after the operation you'll regain fifty percent use of your arms.
Fiction book (2000) -
The marginal tax credit is equal to fifty percent of the increase in R&D expenditures over the previous year.
Academic text (1993) -
Fifty percent of market value.
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A billion years after Day Zero, there is a fifty percent probability that life would form.
Fiction book (1999) -
U.S. exports have grown by fifty percent in the last two years.
Academic text (1991) -
As a result, over fifty percent of the wetlands in the United States have been destroyed.
Academic text (1994) -
In the last five years, the Jewish membership of Maunberg has gone up fifty percent.
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Twenty-six states, educating more than fifty percent of the nation's students, will lead the development of these standards.
Academic text (2012) -
Recent studies indicate that HCFCs may remain in the stratosphere approximately fifty percent longer than originally predicted.
Academic text (1991) -
For example, as noted above, New York reduced its child fatalities by fifty percent without mandating clergy reporting.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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3.0
An equal share or chance between two people
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'one half or 50 out of every 100' is directly and compositionally derived from the numeral 'fifty' combined with 'percent' (a ratio per hundred). Percentage constructions are cross-linguistically regular and follow straightforward numeric composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand this phrase.
Etymology
Fifty percent comes from the simple idea of fifty out of one hundred parts. Picture 100 equal coins and you take 50 of them; that image is 'one half', so fifty percent means 'one half' of a total.