interest(money paid in return for borrowing a usually large sum of money • The (rate of) interest on this loan is eight per cent); percentage(an amount, number or rate given as a fraction of one hundred • We've expressed all these figures as percentages); per cent(, noun (often written % with figures) (of numbers, amounts etc.) stated as a fraction of one hundred • Twenty-five per cent of one hundred and twenty is thirty; 25% of the people did not reply to our letters); rate; rate of interest; juice; content; percentage point(The ruling party, whose list Medvedev headed without being a member, got 49.54 percent – 14 percentage points less than at the 2007 elections, according to preliminary results published Monday. TMT Alexander Demidov); commission(some contexts Tanya Gesse); commission fee(some contexts Tanya Gesse); %(MichaelBurov); percent key
per cent(во множественном числе (per cents) употребляется только в британском английском для обозначения ценных бумаг, приносящих точно определённую прибыль, например: The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.)
