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fifty percent

n. a half expressed as a percentage

Usage examples of "fifty percent".

Volley fire grenades, program: single line deep, fifty percent overlap, close support FPF softies to the left!

If any of these criminals receives wire transfers in excess of ten million dollars or the equivalent, and transfers more than fifty percent of that amount out again, to one, ten, or a hundred banks, in less than twenty-four hours, you gentlemen must inform me, pronto.

Their superdreadnoughts can actually move fifty percent faster than ours over any sort of long voyage.

Tower one was still down, and one of the precrackers was operating at less than fifty percent.

Indeed, the dream had been exceeded, because with improved conservation techniques, the Platte was recovering not the thirty-seven percent of diverted water that he had predicted, but almost fifty percent.