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• certain — 01. Geoff is [certain] to attend the party. He never misses a chance to drink beer with the gang. 02. She is [certain] to pass. Her marks have been excellent all term. 03. The doctor isn t [certain] if it is necessary to operate at this point. 04 …   Grammatical examples in English

• certain — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Vulgar Latin *certanus, from Latin certus, from past participle of cernere to sift, discern, decide; akin to Greek krinein to separate, decide, judge, Old Irish criathar sieve Date:… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• percentage commission — The commission of a broker calculated upon a certain percentage of the price obtained for the customer in a transaction negotiated by the broker. 12 Am J2d Brok § 161 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• percentage compensation — An allowance to the trustee of a business trust by way of compensation of a certain percentage of the profits of the business. Anno: 156 ALR 141 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• Percentage 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 …   Wikipedia

• Percentage play — in contract bridge is a generic name for plays in which declarer maximizes the chances for obtaining a certain number of tricks or the maximum number of tricks when considering the suit in isolation. Sometimes the percentage play is not the… …   Wikipedia

• Percentage — Per*cent age, n. [Per cent + age, as in average. See {Per}, and {Cent}.] (Com.) A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest, discount, or commission, on a hundred. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Percentage — In mathematics, a percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100 ( per cent meaning per hundred ). It is often denoted using the percent sign, % . For example, 45% (read as forty five percent ) is equal to 45 / 100, or… …   Wikipedia

• percentage of completion method — A method of reporting income or loss on certain long term contracts. Under this method of accounting, revenue is recognized gradually throughout the construction period. See also completed contract method …   Black's law dictionary

• percentage order — A market or limited price order to buy (or sell) a stated amount of a certain stock after a fixed number of shares of such stock have traded …   Black's law dictionary

• Annual percentage rate — Parts of total cost and effective APR for a 12 month, 5% monthly interest, $100 loan paid off in equally sized monthly payments. The term annual percentage rate (APR), also called nominal APR, and the term effective APR, also called EAR,[1]… …   Wikipedia