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pp

noun

LanguagePortuguese (Portugal)

Meaning
  1. initialism of ponto percentual or ponto de percentagem.
  2. percentage point
  3. An abbreviation used to refer to a percentage point, which is the arithmetic difference between two percentages.
Examples

A taxa de juros subiu 2 pp.

The interest rate went up 2 percentage points.

Part of speechnoun

Usage noteThis is an initialism commonly used in technical, financial, or academic texts.

Status: Pending verification

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.