- used to express the cost or amount of something for each person, number used, distance travelled, etc.
- Rooms cost £50 per person, per night.
- 60 miles per hour
- France consumes around 200 000 tonnes of cocoa per year.
- This country has a higher crime rate per 100 000 of the population than most other European countries.
Word OriginLatin, ‘through, by means of’; partly via Old French.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See per in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee per in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishas per something
- following something that has been decided
- The work was carried out as per instructions.
as per normal/usual
- (informal) in the way that is normal or usual; as often happens
- Everyone blamed me as per usual.
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