Synonyms for one-third
one-third

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. one-third, third, tiercenoun

   one of three equal parts of a divisible whole

   "it contains approximately a third of the minimum daily requirement"

   Synonyms:
   third, trey, trio, troika, ternary, terzetto, tierce, trinity, triplet, deuce-ace, threesome, trine, third base, ternion, leash, three, tercet, triad, terce, third gear

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1. List of paraphrases for "one-third":

   onethird, third, thirds

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1. David Nabarro:

   Probably about one third of these people are not coming from the contact list, which means they are surprise cases, and that’s a big worry.

2. Sam Khater:

   Homebuyers continue to show resilience even though rising mortgage rates are causing monthly payments to increase by about one-third as compared to a year ago.

3. John Franco:

   There are two worlds in America -- and two worlds here in the state of Vermont, one of those worlds is the world of Richard Nixon, and the millionaires and billionaires Richard Nixon represents. This is the world of the 2 % of the population that owns one-third of the personally held wealth in America.

4. Doug Kass:

   Reflecting operating losses and a toxic asset book of European loans and sovereign debt, Deutsche Bank trades at only one-third of overstated shareholders equity compared with Citigroup at 90 percent of shareholders equity and JPMorgan at 1.8 times capital.

5. Robert Gabbay:

   I can tell you from seeing patients Robert Gabbay that there are many who ca n’t afford their insulin and don’t take it or take less of it and they’re worse off for it, here is the treatment that almost one-third of people with diabetes are on and its increased in price to this degree, that’s quite concerning.