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单词 per centing
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per centingadj.

Brit. /pə ˈsɛntɪŋ/, U.S. /pər ˈsɛn(t)ɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: per cent n., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < per cent n. + -ing suffix2. Compare later percent v.
rare.
With preceding numeral: paying, giving, or rating so many per cent.
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1850 R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour xxxiv, in New Monthly Mag. Feb. 209 What a succession of joyous, careless, dashing, sixty per centing youths we have had.
1925 H. Van Loon Tolerance (1927) xxvii. 342 The principal actor..should have been a prig, a model citizen, a hundred-percenting paragon of Virtue.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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