Ten Percent

Definition: Ten Percent

Ten Percent

Noun

1. A tenth part; one part in ten.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Ten Percent

Crosswords: Ten Percent

Now we have to put our heads together and get them out of it. And it you two aren't with me a hundred and ten percent, (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

He'll have you wrestling midgets in border towns for ten percent of the net. (Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter; writing credit: Ian Driscoll)

I got a share of this job. Ten percent of nothin' is, let me do the math herenothin' and a nothin', carry the nothin' (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan)

Watch it. You break it, you buy it. Ten percent off for cousins, twenty percent off for nephews and nieces. (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset)

Jackie wants to give it to you herself, she wants to collect her ten percent. She also wants to explain why she had to hang on to it. (Jackie Brown; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

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Books

• The Ten Percent Solution: Simple Steps to Improve Our Lives and Our World (reference)

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Health

TD typically results in four to five loose or watery stools per day. The median duration of diarrhea is 3 to 4 days. Ten percent of the cases persist longer than 1 week, approximately 2 percent longer than 1 month, and less than 1 percent longer than 3 months. (references)

Business

In 1999 U.S. imports decreased ten percent. (references)

There is a ten percent price preference on procurement and tenders. (references)

Less than ten percent of logic ICs sold in the domestic market are ASICs. (references)

Economic History

Finland

Ten percent of Europe's biotechnology companies are Finnish. (references)

Vietnam

Private clinics account for about five percent to ten percent of the market. (references)

Turkey

After the February financial crisis, the IT market growth dropped to ten percent. (references)

Political Economy

PARAGUAY

Implemented in 1992, the value-added tax (IVA) stands at ten percent. (references)

IRELAND

Most Irish-based, U.S.-owned businesses pay corporate tax at the special ten percent rate. (references)

Guatemala

He also decreased the Government's deficit spending, reducing the budget by an average of ten percent. (references)

Trade

Burma

For the past three years, the government levied a ten percent tax on exports. (references)

Armenia

The ten percent tariff is levied on items consisting mainly of consumer goods and luxury items. (references)

Burma

After paying ten percent tax on their earnings, Burmese citizens can withdraw FECs from their state bank accounts. (references)

Travel

South Africa

Tipping is lower than in Europe or the United States and ten percent is the typical rate. (references)

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Chinese 

百分之十 . (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

一割 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いちわり. (various references)

Pig Latin

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: pretence, tenpence.

-3 letters: centner, entente, pentene, percent, precent, preteen, terpene.

-4 letters: center, centre, entree, eterne, netter, pecten, penner, petter, recent, recept, rennet, repent, retene, teener, teeter, tenner, tenrec, tenter, tercet, terete.

-5 letters: creep, crepe, crept, enter, erect, pence, penne, peter, preen, rente, tenet, tepee, terce, terne, treen.

+5 letters: parthenogenetic.

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