seventy-five

[ sev-uh n-tee-fahyv ]

/ ˈsɛv ən tiˈfaɪv /

a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.

a symbol for this number, as 75 or LXXV.

a set of this many persons or things.

Military.

a gun with a 75-mm caliber.
the field gun of that caliber used in the French and U.S. armies in World War I.

amounting to 75 in number.

Words nearby seventy-five

Seventy-five percent of the collection was done by the time he got there.

Fashion Designer Oscar de la Renta, American Great, Dead at 82 |Tim Teeman |October 21, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Seventy-five years ago, ‘War of the Worlds’ hit the airwaves, setting off a national panic.

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Seventy-five percent of small businesses now say they are going to be forced to either fire workers or cut their hours.

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In late April, a tornado struck near Donovan, killing seventy-five people.

Babe Ruth’s Summer of Records |Bill Bryson |September 29, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Seventy-five percent of borrowers use their Lending Club financing for debt consolidation or credit-card debt.

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But in the end Piedmont paid Austria an indemnity of seventy-five million francs.

The Patriot |Antonio Fogazzaro
He takes the additional work at seventy-five pounds a year extra.

The Catholic World. Volume III; Numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. |E. Rameur
Seventy or seventy-five thousand dollars, besides your house and barn money, shall be my limit.

The Fat of the Land |John Williams Streeter
You had better hustle round and pony up that seventy-five dollars you are owing him.

A California Girl |Edward Eldridge
This would make Apollonius seventy-two to seventy-five when he succeeded Eratosthenes.

The Argonautica |Apollonius Rhodius