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- noun A fifth part.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one part in five equal parts
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Examples
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But the TNC has yet to secure the city and the old regime still controls one-fifth of the capital.
The Face of Victory in Tripoli Ranj Alaaldin 2011
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Equities trading wasn't as bad, dropping by one-fifth to $124.3 million.
Jefferies Cuts Balance Sheet Brett Philbin 2011
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The proposed deal would create Europe's second-largest venue for equity trading, with about one-fifth of all European share trading, and reduce the major players handling U.K. stocks from three to two.
U.K. Probes Exchange Deal Vladimir Guevarra 2011
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« USAv3 – Not getting closer “Nearly one-fifth of local streets – 193 miles – are now beyond their intended life spans, some by as many as 60 years.”
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Another study of 25,000 autopsies found that one-fifth of all the Russian men whose death had been attributed to circulatory diseases had lethal or near-lethal levels of ethanol in their blood.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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In fact, the board estimates only one-fifth of the reductions will come from cap and trade.
Sarah Terry-Cobo: US Gas Is Artificially Cheap: What We Don't Pay For at the Pump Sarah Terry-Cobo 2011
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In fact, the board estimates only one-fifth of the reductions will come from cap and trade.
Sarah Terry-Cobo: US Gas Is Artificially Cheap: What We Don't Pay For at the Pump Sarah Terry-Cobo 2011
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In fact, the board estimates only one-fifth of the reductions will come from cap and trade.
Sarah Terry-Cobo: US Gas Is Artificially Cheap: What We Don't Pay For at the Pump Sarah Terry-Cobo 2011
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In fact, the board estimates only one-fifth of the reductions will come from cap and trade.
Sarah Terry-Cobo: US Gas Is Artificially Cheap: What We Don't Pay For at the Pump Sarah Terry-Cobo 2011
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The eighth largest nation in the world, Nigeria hosts one-fifth of the population of Sub-Saharan Africa, over half of which lives on less than one dollar a day.
Dr. Annika Sweetland: Taking Concepts to Scale: Achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria Dr. Annika Sweetland 2011
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