two-fifths

noun

Two of five equal parts (2/5, ⅖, 0.4).

Meanings

nountwo-fifths (uncountable)

alternative two fifths

  1. uncountableTwo of five equal parts (2/5, ⅖, 0.4).

    The company has calculated that, in some states, this reduction could impact more than two-fifths of its ABA therapy provider groups in network and up to 19% of its patients in therapy.

    2024 December 14, Annie Waldman, “UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to critical treatment for kids with autism”, in CNN
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    It provides for the sale of four-fifths of certain land, while the mortgagor owned only two-fifths, and the decree was so drawn as to lead to an inference that the intention was that a two-fifths interest belonging to the plaintiff should be sold in connection with the mortgagor's interest.

    1888, The Northwestern Reporter, volume 35, page 507

    If only an emulsion be required, a solution of rubber in benzine or other hydrocarbon, to which a small portion of alcohol has been added, is mixed by vigorous agitation with a two-fifths saturated solution of borax previously heated to about 120° to 140° Fahr., and the agitation must be continued—preferably by mechanical means, but not of too violent a character—until the mixture has cooled down to the temperature of the air, or nearly so.

    1890 March 27, The American Stationer, volume 27, page 743

    A business buyer that bought a government property in 1960, for instance, would have paid about three-fifths (60.1 percent) of the price of the property, receiving about a two-fifths (39.9 percent) inflation windfall, instead of 33.6 and 66.4 percent, respectively, as was the case when purchased in 1953.

    2007, Young-Iob Chung, South Korea in the fast lane: economic development and capital formation, page 99

Translations

Finnish kaksi viidesosaa
  • kaksi viidesosaa2/5
German zwei Fünftel
  • zwei Fünftel2/5
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