percentage
The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole.
Example
“A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year.”
Other meanings
A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar.
“She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.”
Benefit or advantage.
“There was no percentage in staying at home.”
Word history
From Latin "per centum" (for every hundred).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “percentage” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.