also percent
(~)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
You use ~ to talk about amounts. For example, if an amount is 10 ~ (10%) of a larger amount, it is equal to 10 hundredths of the larger amount.
20 to 40 ~ of the voters are undecided...
We aim to increase sales by 10 ~...
N-COUNT: num N, oft N of n
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Per cent is also an adjective.
There has been a ten ~ increase in the number of new students arriving at polytechnics this year.
ADJ: ADJ n
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Per cent is also an adverb.
...its prediction that house prices will fall 5 ~ over the year...
ADV: ADV with v