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one-fifth

 

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Noun one-fifth has 1 sense
  1. one-fifth, fifth, fifth part, twenty percent - a fifth part
    --1 is a kind of common fraction, simple fraction

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Term: one-fifth

Part of Speech: Noun

Sense 1: The fraction equal to 1 divided by 5, or 0.2.

Example Sentence: She drank one-fifth of the bottle and left the rest for me.

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Part of Speech: Adjective

Sense 1: Referring to or denoting something that constitutes or makes up one-fifth of a whole.

Example Sentence: The group's proposed budget cut would result in a one-fifth reduction in funding for the project.

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Part of Speech: Adverb

Sense 1: In an amount or proportion equal to one-fifth.

Example Sentence: The company plans to allocate resources one-fifth to research and development.

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Part of Speech: Noun

Sense 2: A time or an occurrence representing one-fifth of a complete revolution or cycle.

Example Sentence: The clock on the wall indicated that we had already completed one-fifth of the workday.

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