per centum

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Etymology

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Latin per + centum

Noun

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per centum

  1. (law, US, dated) percent
    • 1861, Laws of Pennsylvania of the Session of 1861, page 511:
      On all dividends which do not exceed six per centum per annum, eight per centum; on dividends exceeding six per centum and not exceeding seven per centum, a tax of nine per centum...
    • 1887, Henry Beatty, A New Method of Computing Interest from Four Per Centum to Twelve Per Centum‎[1]:
    • 1891–1892, Special Consular Reports, Volume VII, page 787:
      Firearms, twenty-five per centum
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