preposition
used to express the cost or amount of sth for each person, number used, distance travelled, etc:
Rooms cost ｣50 per person, per night. * 60 miles per hour * This country has a higher crime rate per 100000 of the population than most other European countries.
IDIOMS
as per sth following sth that has been decided:
The work was carried out as per instructions.
as per normal / usual (spoken) in the way that is normal or usual; as often happens:
Everyone blamed me as per usual.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for per is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does per appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — per appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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