TWO-THIRDS


Meaning of TWO-THIRDS in English

also two thirds

Two-thirds of something is an amount that is two out of three equal parts of it.

Two-thirds of householders in this country live in a mortgaged home...

QUANT : QUANT of n

Two-thirds is also a pronoun.

The United States and Russia hope to conclude a treaty to cut their nuclear arsenals by two-thirds.

PRON

Two-thirds is also an adverb.

Do not fill the container more than two-thirds full...

A second book has already been commissioned and is two-thirds finished.

ADV : ADV adj / -ed

Two-thirds is also an adjective.

...the two thirds majority in parliament needed to make constitutional changes.

ADJ : ADJ n

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