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prepositionpronoundeterminercommon in dialogue

  • United States//pɝ//
  • Australia//pɜː//
  • New Zealand//pøː//
  • Scotland//pɛr//

For each.

preposition

  1. 1

    For each.

    Admission is £10 per person.

    miles per gallon

    beats per minute

    $2.50 per dozen

  2. 2

    To each, in each (used in expressing ratios of units).

    12 inches per foot

    100 centimeters per meter

  3. 3

    By the, through the (with name of body part in Latin).

    Introduce the endoscope per nasum.

    The medication is to be administered per os.

  4. 4

    In accordance with, as per.

    I parked my car at the curb per your request.

    Implement a program that computes the approximate grade level needed to comprehend some text, per the below.

    Note that while the walkthrough illustrates that words may be separated by more than one space, you may assume, per the specifications above, that no sentences will contain more than one space in a row.

  5. 5

    According to.

    Bucks trading for Patrick Beverley, per sources

    The Heat were too close to the luxury tax line -- $1.6 million over before this trade, per ESPN's Bobby Marks

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Italic *per Latin perder. English per From Latin per (“through, during”), from Proto-Indo-European *per. Doublet of par.

pronoun

  1. 1

    rareThey (singular). Gender-neutral neologistic third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.

    This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?

  2. 2

    rareThem (singular) Neologistic gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, suggested for use in place of him and her.

    This is the same place the Houghtons came from? The place where someone we interacted with thought of going into law as a profession, decided per couldn't because per was a bdsmer, and most of the USAmerican bdsmers per was discussing it with agreed with per?

    "Kalypso!" I call out as phe disappears on the horizon. I did not know it, but I loved per.

    Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.

Etymology

Clipping of person, coined by American novelist and poet Marge Piercy in Woman on the Edge of Time (1979)

determiner

  1. 1

    rareBelonging to per; their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.

    Whereas Christie had flirted with a lesbian identity prior to surgery, following surgery Christie found perself able to pursue per attraction to men, provided they related to per as a non-gendered person.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).