| 单词 | percenter |
| 释义 | percenter
Also per center, per-center.
[f. per cent phr. (n.) + -er1.]
Following a number (occas. with hyphen): that on (or from) which a percentage (specified by the number) is reckoned; a chance, situation, etc., the value of which is reckoned as a specified percentage. Also, one who lends or deals in money involving a certain rate of interest or commission.
c1863T. Taylor Ticket-of-Leave Man iii. 52 Moss (at the counter, getting out his bills)... For two hundred at two months—drawn by Captain Crabbs—accepted the Honourable Augustus Greenway: that's a thirty per center. 1897Pall Mall G. 2 June 2/2 He had been charged with lending money at 650 per cent{ddd}charged with being a 650-percenter. 1949[see influence pedlar]. 1950E. Hemingway Across River xxxiii. 208 The brown-nosers, the five and ten and twenty percenters and all the jerks. 1959Punch 10 June 781/1 We are tempted to deduce that her age bracket..is a sure hundred percenter. 1960Times 5 Feb. 16/5 One explanation was the rush by the public to buy the new five percenter Treasury bonds. 1976‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal iv. i. 154 Louis was 99 per cent sure the caller was a nutcase: but it was by following up the one-percenters that great exclusives were found.
So -per-ˈcenting a. (paying so much per cent).
1852R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour (1893) 192 What a succession of joyous, careless, dashing, sixty per centing youths we have had. |
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