per
♦♦ per /pɜːr/
1 [PREP] amount PREP n
You use per to express rates and ratios. For example, if something costs £50 per year, you must pay £50 each year for it. If a vehicle is travelling at 40 miles per hour, it travels 40 miles each hour.
Social Security refused to pay her more than £17 per week...
Buses and trains use much less fuel per person than cars.
per head: see head
2 [PREP-PHRASE]
If something happens as per a particular plan or suggestion, it happens in the way planned or suggested. (FORMAL)
When they reach here they complain that they are not being paid as per the agreement...per an|num /pər 'ænəm/
[ADV] amount ADV
A particular amount per annum means that amount each year.
...a fee of £35 per annum...
Kenya's population is growing at 4.1 per cent per annum.per capi|ta /pər k'æpɪtə/
[ADJ] ADJ n
The per capita amount of something is the total amount of it in a country or area divided by the number of people in that country or area.
They have the world's largest per capita income...
[ADV] n ADV
Per capita is also an adverb.
Ethiopia has almost the lowest oil consumption per capita in the world...♦♦♦ per cent /pər s'ent/ (per cent)
also percent
[N-COUNT] num N, oft N of n
You use per cent to talk about amounts. For example, if an amount is 10 per cent (10%) of a larger amount, it is equal to 10 hundredths of the larger amount.
20 to 40 per cent of the voters are undecided...
We aim to increase sales by 10 per cent...
[ADJ] ADJ n
Per cent is also an adjective.
There has been a ten per cent increase in the number of new students arriving at polytechnics this year.
[ADV] ADV with v
Per cent is also an adverb.
...its prediction that house prices will fall 5 per cent over the year...per diem /pər d'iːəm/
[N-SING] oft N n
A per diem is an amount of money that someone is given to cover their daily expenses while they are working. (mainly AM)
He received a per diem allowance to cover his travel expenses.per se /pɜːr s'eɪ/
[ADV]
Per se means `by itself' or `in itself', and is used when you are talking about the qualities of one thing considered on its own, rather than in connection with other things.
The authors' argument is not with the free market per se but with the western society in which it works...
1 [PREP] amount PREP n
You use per to express rates and ratios. For example, if something costs £50 per year, you must pay £50 each year for it. If a vehicle is travelling at 40 miles per hour, it travels 40 miles each hour.
Social Security refused to pay her more than £17 per week...
Buses and trains use much less fuel per person than cars.
per head: see head
2 [PREP-PHRASE]
If something happens as per a particular plan or suggestion, it happens in the way planned or suggested. (FORMAL)
When they reach here they complain that they are not being paid as per the agreement...per an|num /pər 'ænəm/
[ADV] amount ADV
A particular amount per annum means that amount each year.
...a fee of £35 per annum...
Kenya's population is growing at 4.1 per cent per annum.per capi|ta /pər k'æpɪtə/
[ADJ] ADJ n
The per capita amount of something is the total amount of it in a country or area divided by the number of people in that country or area.
They have the world's largest per capita income...
[ADV] n ADV
Per capita is also an adverb.
Ethiopia has almost the lowest oil consumption per capita in the world...♦♦♦ per cent /pər s'ent/ (per cent)
also percent
[N-COUNT] num N, oft N of n
You use per cent to talk about amounts. For example, if an amount is 10 per cent (10%) of a larger amount, it is equal to 10 hundredths of the larger amount.
20 to 40 per cent of the voters are undecided...
We aim to increase sales by 10 per cent...
[ADJ] ADJ n
Per cent is also an adjective.
There has been a ten per cent increase in the number of new students arriving at polytechnics this year.
[ADV] ADV with v
Per cent is also an adverb.
...its prediction that house prices will fall 5 per cent over the year...per diem /pər d'iːəm/
[N-SING] oft N n
A per diem is an amount of money that someone is given to cover their daily expenses while they are working. (mainly AM)
He received a per diem allowance to cover his travel expenses.per se /pɜːr s'eɪ/
[ADV]
Per se means `by itself' or `in itself', and is used when you are talking about the qualities of one thing considered on its own, rather than in connection with other things.
The authors' argument is not with the free market per se but with the western society in which it works...