percent

(also per cent)

/pərˈsent/ adv [not gradable] (abbreviation pct, symbol %)

Definition

› for or out of every 100: You got 20 percent of the answers right. Only 48% of registered voters actually voted in the election.

(Definition of percent adv from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

to do something without worrying about the risk or negative results

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