English-French translations for percentage

• pourcentage
  Je propose un pourcentage plus élevé. I propose a higher percentage.
  Le pourcentage est-il supérieur ou inférieur? Is the percentage higher or lower?
  Je sais que c'est un faible pourcentage, mais c'est un pourcentage important. I know this is a small percentage, but it is an important percentage.
• commission
  La Commission fixe donc un pourcentage qu'elle sait invérifiable. The Commission is therefore setting a percentage which it knows is unverifiable.
  La Commission est prête à accepter la réduction des pourcentages minimums. The Commission is prepared to accept the reduction of the minimum percentages.
  La proposition de la Commission européenne visant à accorder à un artiste un pourcentage sur la vente de ses oeuvres est mal conçue. The European Commission's proposal for an artist's percentage on the sale of a work of art is ill-thought-out.

Definition of percentage

• The amount, number or rate of something, regarded as part of a total of 100; a part of a whole
• A share of the sales, profits, gross margin or similar
• Benefit or advantage

Examples

• A high percentage of secondary school leavers take a gap year
• She gets a percentage for every vacuum cleaner sold.
• There was no percentage in staying at home.

Related words

• percentaged
• percentage of alcohol
• percentage point
• percentage by volume
• percentage by weight
• percentage rate
• percentage sign
• percentage of silver
• percentage by mass