seventy-five
- numeral
- /ˈsɛvənti faɪv/
- There are just eight female faculty members in a total of seventy-five faculty members.
- seventy-five percent
- seventy-five years
- a seventy-five-year-old
Examples
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By 1993, Ministry of Labor figures showed only seventy-five job offerings for every one hundred job seekers.
Academic text (1996) -
" Just exactly what are we supposed to do with seventy-five thousand dollars?
Fiction book (1995) -
Seventy-five dollars is yours to share.
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Upon its opening in 1550, it was leased for four years at seventy-five pounds a year.
Academic text (1990) -
The book includes about seventy-five historical photographs, most taken from the Charlevoix Historical Society's collection.
Academic text (2015) -
Outside the clinic, a line of perhaps seventy-five wait patiently, watching as Hasari takes off again.
Fiction book (1992) -
Later, I found the envelope of money on the steps, seventy-five dollars, which smelled faintly of perfume.
Fiction book (1990) -
Mount Sinai was especially proud of its airy wards that housed seventy-five much-needed beds and its operating rooms.
Academic text (1991) -
Seventy-five... students graduated from the program this year.
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She collected seventy-five unique stamps from around the world.
Synonyms
A Roman numeral that means seventy-five
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Etymology
Seventy-five is simply made from seventy and five, where seventy means 'seven tens' and five means 'five', so seventy-five literally means 'seven tens and five' and therefore names the number 75.