ten percent
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- noun
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- I'll knock ten percent off the price.
- ten percent of the population
- less than ten percent
- more than ten percent
Examples
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For performing this service in a timely manner, I'd get ten percent of her bond amount.
Fiction book (1999) -
Of course, there is a ten percent interest charge overnight.
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Returns are fixed at ten percent
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I could give you a deal ... let's say, ten percent off if you call this month.
Fiction book (2001) -
All other categories consisted of no more than ten percent of the class.
Academic text (1994) -
Ten percent of everything recovered.
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She'd signed away all her rights to her perfume for only ten percent of the partnership.
Fiction book (1994) -
For Florida, a sample of ten percent of the elementary schools was taken instead.
Academic text (1993) -
Ten percent of 10,000 is a grand, buddy.
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If you invest in the fund, you can expect a return of ten percent this year.
Synonyms
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One equal part when something is divided into ten parts
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One part of ten equal parts
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One of ten equal parts of a whole
One of ten equal parts of money that people give as a tax or church payment
How Much
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'one part in every ten (10%)' is directly and transparently derived from 'ten' (the numeral 10) modifying 'percent' (a ratio out of 100); a learner who knows both words can compute or infer the quantity. This numeric compositional pattern is standard and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily understand the expression.
Etymology
Ten percent means ten out of every hundred. Imagine 100 small boxes and color 10 of them; those colored boxes are 'one part in every ten' of the whole, so ten percent shows that share.