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Definition of Twenty percent
1. Noun. One part in five equal parts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty Percent
Literary usage of Twenty percent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dominion Annual Register and Review edited by Henry James Morgan (1880)
"Watches, watch movements and watch cases, twenty percent, ad valorem 20 p. ct.
... Lumber and timber, not elsewhere specified, twenty percent, advalorem 20 ..."
2. Applied Colloid Chemistry: General Theory by Wilder Dwight Bancroft (1921)
"Although the twenty percent jelly will take up enough water so that its composition
is equal to that of a ten percent jelly, the two do not then behave ..."
3. What Next in Europe? by Frank Arthur Vanderlip (1922)
"The Gold Reserve Bank of the United States of Europe must always receive a minimum
of not less than twenty percent of gold against advances of circulating ..."
4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1913)
"... that upon all sales of two cylinder Motor Cars, parts of supplies therefor
made hereunder to the second party, a commission or discount twenty percent ..."
5. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1916)
"NOTES ON THE ELUSIVE twenty percent PAVING BLOCK BY MARION W. BLAIR, ME There is
a steadily increasing demand for paving block of high quality, ..."
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