Per meaning in English

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Definition

(twice) per (day): (twice) every (day); (two times) a (day) preposition
a slice per person each person receives one slice

Examples

  • "$500,000 per person"
  • "Scientists estimate that the web's carbon footprint (the CO2 it produces) is growing at around 10% per year, which could be bad news for internet giants such as Moogle, Microtosh, and YouLube."
  • "We agreed on $31 per unit, so we will pay $31 per unit."
  • "(*) Krazy Gidyeon's Perfume Warehouse.com will ship one refrigerator magnet per order while supplies last."
  • "$100,000 per accident"
  • "Mrs. Brady's School of English offers a 2-week general English course (20 lessons of 45 mins per week) with an activities and excursion programme for £800 (food and accommodation included)."
  • "In the last five years, the pound has risen 34 per cent against the dollar, including 10 per cent in the past 12 months."
  • "Only $10 per pack of 20!)"
  • "The speed limit is 65 miles per hour, not, 97!"
  • "- You can rent tea and coffee making facilities for an extra charge (£12 per night)."
  • "300,000 units (at $12 per unit) with 40% discount = $2,160,000"
  • "The highest rates of weight gain per second were localized in the mid-west and the south (the so-called Fat Belt), however weight gain was steady from coast to coast, from California to New York."
  • "12 coffees brewed per second, 94 mails archived per minute, 6-10 chocolates fed to Bruno per hour."
  • "35 dollars per unit, doesn't that sound nice?"
  • "Philip : But you save 2 dollars per unit!"
  • "-Buy back 5,000 unsold units from Sheik Jafar's Perfume Conglomerate (Shipped in June) at their retail price of $65 per unit ($325,000)"
  • "$50,000 per person"
  • "31 dollars per unit!"
  • "Very soon, millions of people will be singing "It hurts so bad" when they go to the bathroom. We will pay you 0.0000001 dollar per flush."

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