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Divide into fair shares
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prorate
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Word definitions for prorate in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also pro-rate , "divide proportionally," 1860, American English, verb derived from Latin pro rata (parte) (see pro rata ). Related: Prorated ; prorating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To divide proportionately, especially by day; to divide pro rat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prorate \Pro*rate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prorated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Prorating .] [From L. pro rata (sc. parte) according to a certain part, in proportion.] To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rat
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The fee will be prorated for the days you do not attend.
Usage examples of prorate.
We are most honored to convey this cargo to the humble yet proudly efficient space station of Aeolia Penta, which has the privilege of orbiting our homeworld, at a purely nominal rate consistent with the prorated value of the original fee.
In several of his classes, prorated scoring systems were devised according to the standards he set.
There is no more definitive behind-scene locale in a primary campaign than the F&F Room, which is usually some hotel's little third-string banquet or meeting room off the lobby that McCain2000 rents (at the media's expense, precisely prorated and tallied, just like each day's seat on the buses and plane and the continental breakfasts before Baggage Call and even the F&F Rooms' ``catered lunches,'' which today are weird bright-red ham on Wonder Bread, Fritos, and coffee that tastes like warm water with a brown crayon in it, and the pencils all bitch about the McCain2000 food and wistfully recount rumors that the Bush2000 press lunches are supposedly hot and multi-food-group and served on actual plates by unctuous men with white towels over their arm) so that those media with P.
This can be prorated by week or by day, if you wish, and automatic limits placed on the amounts you can spend or hypothecate.