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Definition of Twenty-five percent
1. Noun. One of four equal parts. "A quarter of a pound"
Generic synonyms: Common Fraction, Simple Fraction
Derivative terms: Quarter, Quarter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twenty-five Percent
Literary usage of Twenty-five percent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History and Analysis of the Commission and City-manager Plans of Municipal by Tso-Shuen Chang (1918)
"The initiative is made available at a special election on petition of twenty-five
percent of the voters, and at a general election on a ten percent petition ..."
2. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1868)
"... twenty five percent, may be constituted as follows: one-half the reserve of
twenty-five per cent, may be in actual cash balances due from any National ..."
3. Rural School Survey of New York State: Educational Achievement by Melvin Everett Haggerty (1922)
"The twenty- five percent scoring lowest in the combined tests have an ...
The highest twenty-five percent in the combined tests score 49 points in each of ..."
4. Proceedings of the Natural Gas Association of America by Natural Gas Association of America, Meeting (1921)
"JOHNSON : One reason for not taking a flat twenty- five percent of your capacity
to get that yield is there is so much more gas the first year, and assuming ..."
5. Department Reports of the State of Ohio: Containing the Decisions, Opinions (1919)
"However, the trustees of Jackson and Pleasant townships refuse to pay the
three-fifths of the twenty-five percent provided for in Section 1208 General Code ..."
6. The Dominion Annual Register and Review edited by Henry James Morgan (1880)
"Car-wheels and axles, twenty-five percent, ad valorem 25 p. ct. Boiled beams,
channels and angle and T iron, fifteen per cent, ad valorem 15 p. ct. ..."
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