prorate

Meanings

• meaning 1: adjusting or dividing a total amount or responsibility proportionately among several people or parties, often based on a specified time period.

  - "Array of Examples sentence for meaning 1: Prorate means adjusting a total amount or responsibility proportionately among several people or parties over a specified time period. For example, if a company has a yearly budget of $500,000 and they need to allocate that budget proportionately for each month of the year, they would prorate the yearly budget to monthly budgets by dividing the total yearly budget by the number of months in a year and then multiplying the result by the number of months in the desired time period. This calculation allows the company to allocate their budget proportionately to each month in the year, ensuring that their expenses remain within their budget for the entire year."

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Rhymes

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Homophones

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Variants

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prorate , prorated , prorates , prorating , proration , prorations

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Etymology

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From Latin prorata, meaning 'extended, prolonged, continued, distributed', from pro-, meaning 'forth, before, ahead, outward, exterior', and rat-, meaning 'to bind, to agree, to join'.

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1. budget: A planned allocation of resources, often represented as a financial plan for a specified period of time.

2. proportion: A relationship between two quantities that is expressed as a ratio, a fraction, or a percentage.

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