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Pro rata   Listen
adverb
Pro rata  adv.  In proportion; proportionately; according to the share, interest, or liability of each.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pro rata" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gilgan, in a parlor-room in a small hotel in Milwaukee (in order not to be seen together), conferred. Finally Messrs. Tiernan, Edstrom, Kerrigan, and Gilgan met and mapped out a programme of division far too intricate to be indicated here. Needless to say, it involved the division of chief clerks, pro rata, of police graft, of gambling and bawdy-house perquisites, of returns from gas, street-railway, and other organizations. It was sealed with many solemn promises. If it could be made effective this ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... of no advantage to the Negro race today to send to Congress forty Negro Representatives on the pro rata basis of numbers, especially if they happened not to be exceptionally well qualified. They would remain in Congress only so long as the American white people could devise some plan for eliminating them as they did during the Reconstruction period. Near as ...
— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson



Words linked to "Pro rata" :   proportionately



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