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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
commensurate
adjective
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▪ Each team was given unambiguous achievement responsibility, commensurate authority, and uncluttered accountability.
▪ His reward, as Viktor promised, would be commensurate.
▪ If the clergy had privileges, they also had commensurate duties.
▪ It follows that ordinary citizens have a commensurate right to demand an accounting of regulatory costs as they do of taxes.
▪ Reward should be commensurate with effort.
▪ The growth of population and commensurate expansion of settlement is reflected by the increasingly varied soil environments settled through the Anglo-Saxon period.
▪ The initial salary will be commensurate with age, qualifications and experience.
▪ Their conversation soon turned to shared regrets about the large amount of money being squandered on environmental programs without commensurate result.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Commensurate

Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Commensurated; p. pr. & vb. n. Commensurating.] [Pref. com- + mensurate.]

  1. To reduce to a common measure.
    --Sir T. Browne.

  2. To proportionate; to adjust.
    --T. Puller

Commensurate

Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a.

  1. Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure; as, commensurate quantities.

  2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.

    Those who are persuaded that they shall continue forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness commensurate to their duration.
    --Tillotson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
commensurate

1640s, from Late Latin commensuratus, from Latin com- "with" (see com-) + Late Latin mensuratus, past participle of mensurare "to measure," from mensura (see measure (v.)).

Wiktionary
commensurate

  1. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard. v

  2. 1 To reduce to a common measure. 2 To proportionate; to adjust.

WordNet
commensurate

adj. corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked" [ant: incommensurate]

Usage examples of "commensurate".

That the Universe might endure throughout an aera at all commensurate with the grandeur of its component material portions and with the high majesty of its spiritual purposes, it was necessary that the original atomic diffusion be made to so inconceivable an extent as to be only not infinite.

The company consists principally of Baltimoreans, who will reap a harvest commensurate with the capital invested.

Apart from the immensely thorough medical examinations their specialists had given him - and this hospital at Ulan Bator was the main therapy centre for WHO in all Asia, with staff commensurate - there were such minor luxuries as this chair in which he sat.

Were his achievements in the nineteenth century, educationally, morally, financially and otherwise at all commensurate with his opportunities?

Judged by the obstacles overcome, few races, if any, in history have made progress commensurate with that of the colored people of the United States, in the same length of time.

Gordon Cleeve, and promising her rewards commensurate with the manner in which she carries out my orders.

Like every man who has enormous riches to protect, he will have enveloped himself in layer after layer of security, and it will take commensurate wealth to penetrate that cordon.

Expanding from a common axis, it took less than two hours for one searching the southeast quadrant to locate and identify activity commensurate with the movement of a human-sized object.

Fortunately the alien chose to travel at a leisurely pace commensurate with its majesty.

M: For every attribute of ability, there is a commensurate demand of responsibility.

It moves commensurate to the abilities and experiences of the candidate.

For every ability and attribute, there is a parallel attribute set of responsibilities and these are commensurate always with ability.

If you request specific details, my response will be commensurate to your inquiries.

This process as an example serves to indicate that our actions and state of being are commensurate to our processes and status in our individual evolutions at any particular time.

If the tests are met with commensurate ability and impeccability, then be bridges become increasingly bidirectional.