percentage point
1percentage point — ➔ point1 * * * percentage point UK US noun [C] ► ECONOMICS, FINANCE a unit of measure equal to one percent, used to refer to changes in interest rates: »Markets showed a slight recovery when the Federal Reserve cut short term interest rates by… …
2percentage point — noun the dot at the left of a decimal fraction • Syn: ↑decimal point, ↑point • Hypernyms: ↑mathematical notation * * * percentage point UK US noun [countable] [ …
3percentage point — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms percentage point : singular percentage point plural percentage points one per cent Interest rates have been cut by half a percentage point …
4percentage point — /pəˈsɛntɪdʒ pɔɪnt/ (say puh sentij poynt) noun an amount of one per cent. Usage: The term percentage point is used to avoid confusion with a simple percentage calculation. For example, if an interest rate rises from 10% to 11%, it increases by a… …
5percentage point — per centage ,point noun count one percent: Interest rates have been cut by half a percentage point …
6percentage point — noun Date: 1958 one hundredth of a whole ; percent < interest rates rose one percentage point from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent > …
7percentage point — percent, proportion of one hundred (one percentage point = one percent) …
8Percentage point — Percentage points (pp) are the unit for the arithmetic difference of two percentages. Consider the following hypothetical example: in 1980, 40 percent of the population smoked, and in 1990 only 30 percent smoked. We can thus say that from 1980 to …
9percentage point — a unit of proportion, equal to 0.01 or 1%. This unit is used commonly to describe changes in rates or other quantities that are stated as percentages. For example, an interest rate that rises from 8% to 10% is said to rise by two percentage …
10percentage point — noun one hundredth of a given value See Also: percentage rate …
