preposition

• 1For each (used with units to express a rate)

  ‘a gas station that charges $1.29 per gallon’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Her respiratory rate was 36 breaths per minute with rapid and shallow breathing.’
  • ‘The only evidence of the cost of repainting was expressed in terms of a rate per square metre.’
  • ‘The charge of this card per minute is a little bit higher than the monthly subscription model.’
  • ‘In the last week of March, houses in the city were being sold at the rate of 400 per day.’
  • ‘Are we limited to a total of three bags for the whole house or three bags per unit?’
  • ‘The fact that the cost per unit of his pesticides has risen, makes the effect more dramatic.’
  • ‘For the cued recall test, the 28 adjectives were typed one per line on a sheet of paper.’
  • ‘What these cowboys do is produce a measuring stick and quote what seems a cheap price per line on the stick.’
  • ‘Results presented are the mean of measurements from a minimum of five plants per line from two harvests.’
  • ‘The means of 10 replications per line were used in the data analysis for each trait.’
  • ‘Benefits were being paid to her daughter of £330 per week direct by credit transfer.’
  • ‘All measurements were determined on a per plant basis by dividing each variable by the plant number per plot.’
  • ‘It is calculated by dividing the share price by the company's earnings per share.’
  • ‘The price per slave, then, is this total cost divided by the number of slaves in the lot.’
  • ‘The service will operate four days per week, in each direction between the two cities.’
  • ‘The average cost per household is obtained by dividing the precept by the number of households in the town.’
  • ‘Set a time limit for the number of hours per day or per week you will devote to television.’
  • ‘Only two swimmers per country, per individual event, are allowed to compete.’
  • ‘It lists some of the channels available in the UK and how much they cost us, per person, per week.’
  • ‘By the winter artillery ammunition had been rationed to one or two shells per gun per day.’

  Synonyms

  to, per, every, each

• 2archaic By means of.

  More example sentences

  • ‘send it per express’

• 3Heraldry
  Divided by a line in the direction of.

  ‘per saltire’

  More example sentences

  • ‘per bend’
  • ‘per pale’

• 4

  (also as per)

  In accordance with.

  ‘made as per instructions’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Meanwhile, cook the noodles as per pack instructions, then drain, reserving some of the cooking liquid.’
  • ‘Two years ago, I bought a tree fern and potted it as per instructions.’
  • ‘The road was not widened in the last 15 days as per the police's comment in the report.’
  • ‘The passengers escaped through windows, exactly as per the instructions given on every train.’
  • ‘Meanwhile, cook the pasta as per pack instructions in a large pan of boiling water.’
  • ‘Cook the spaghetti in salted water as per the instructions on the packet.’
  • ‘These treatments are as per the recommendations of the University of Agricultural Sciences.’
  • ‘I understand the machinery will be silent, as per university policy, during the exam period.’
  • ‘I consulted a dermatologist and as per his advice applied steroid ointment.’
  • ‘The centre may be notifying shortly the gold deposit scheme as per the Income Tax Act.’

  Synonyms

  as specified by, as per, in accordance with, in compliance with, in agreement with, in line with, in keeping with, commensurate with, in harmony with, in conformity with, in obedience to, true to, in fulfilment of, following, honouring, heeding, observing