Definition of "one-fifth" []

• A fifth part. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "In fact, the board estimates only one-fifth of the reductions will come from cap and trade."
• "The proposed deal would create Europe's second-largest venue for equity trading, with about one-fifth of all European share trading, and reduce the major players handling U.K. stocks from three to two."
• "Another study of 25,000 autopsies found that one-fifth of all the Russian men whose death had been attributed to circulatory diseases had lethal or near-lethal levels of ethanol in their blood."