fifty percent

1. 1.

   a half expressed as a percentage

   Broaderone-half

Questions about fifty percent

What does fifty percent mean?

fifty percent means "a half expressed as a percentage".

Is fifty percent a common word?

fifty percent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.