What is "pro-rata"

Usage examples of "pro-rata".

Zachariah believed in taking care of daughters, but sons and grandsons had to go out and scratch, with no help from their fathers, until they had earned and saved on their own-or accumulated without going to jail-assets equal to one pro-rata share of the capital sum of the trust before they shared in the trust's income.

The size of the trust made a pro-rata of its assets amount to a requirement that a male descendant had to get rich on his own-well-to-do at least-whereupon he was suddenly twice as rich.

The trustees got me to swear that the items I had collected before I left home had come from earned money true, the earliest items represented mowed lawns and such-and agreed to hold the pro-rata at that day's cash value-lower if the trend continued-if I would sell my collection and send a draft to Zurich, with businesslike speed as soon as I returned to the States.

I then instruct her to pay the trustee of my grandchildren’s trusts their pro-rata share of the next $1,250,000 remaining, up to $250,000 per grandchild.