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Definition of Prorate
1. Verb. Make a proportional settlement or distribution.
2. Verb. Divide or assess proportionally. "The rent was prorated for the rest of the month"
Derivative terms: Proration
Definition of Prorate
1. v. t. To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.
Definition of Prorate
1. Verb. To divide proportionately, especially by day; to divide pro rata. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prorate
1. to divide proportionately [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prorate
Literary usage of Prorate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wolstenholme's Conveyancing and Settled Land Acts: The Vendor and Purchaser by Edward Parker Wolstenholme, Benjamin Lennard Cherry (1905)
"... of the PRINCIPAL prorate REGISTRY and for the DISTRICT prorate REGISTRARS, in
NON-CONTENTIOUS BUSINESS. (29th March, 1887.) RULE 15 of the Rules, ..."
2. A Treatise on New Trial and Appellate Practice: Presenting and Illustrating by Thomas Carl Spelling (1903)
"SUBJECTS OF APPEAL—ORDERS IN prorate. i 511. In probate matters—General view—Statutory
provisions. § 512. Rule that appeal must be taken from judgment or ..."
3. Modern Business Arithmetic: Complete Course by Harry Anson Finney, Joseph Clifton Brown (1916)
"Multiply the prorate by the number of units of the basis in each department. ...
In order to avoid a larger error, the prorate should include as many ..."
4. Modern Business Arithmetic, Complete Course by Harry Anson Finney, Joseph Clifton Brown (1922)
"In order to avoid a larger error, the prorate should include as many significant
... If the expenses were $36.45, the prorate should have four significant ..."
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