pro rata
- idiom
- /proʊ ˈreɪtə/
- Formal
- Ideally, those benefits would be portable from job to job and funded on a pro rata basis by firms on behalf of all who perform work for them.
- pro rata approach
If you downgrade to that card, you will get a pro rata refund on that fee.
- If you downgrade to that card, you will get a pro rata refund on that fee.
- The first pitfall to look out for is not remembering the pro rata rule.
Examples
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If you downgrade to that card, you will get a pro rata refund on that fee.
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The bonuses will be allocated pro rata based on the number of hours worked by each employee during the project.
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But again, if you cancel the card, you get a pro rata refund on that fee.
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In the most common form, the bank's shareholders received a pro rata interest in the stock of the securities unit.
Academic text (1998) -
The amount paid will come from a fixed pot of $500,000 in the first month and will be distributed pro rata depending on how many times your book was downloaded in that month.
Blog text (12) -
LASA will pay LARR a fixed subscription for all LASA members, on a pro rata basis per subscription.
Academic text (2002) -
Additionally, B is paid for his share in the company and is better off than receiving a pro rata share of the corporation that is not able to function as profitably because of shareholder dissension.
Academic text (2017) -
In this simple example, the tax rates of the state and city are 4% and 2%, respectively, so the credit would be allocated pro rata between State A and City Z, allowing John to use two-thirds of the credit towards his State A liability and one-third towards his City Z liability.
Academic text (2017) -
Next, the court analyzed California law, finding that CalPERS does not actually bear the economic burden of the city's nonpayment of its annual pension obligations because, in the event of a default by the city, CalPERS is authorized to reduce pension benefits on a pro rata basis.
Academic text (2018) -
The restaurant charges customers a fee for using the facility, calculated pro rata according to the time spent there.
Synonyms
In a way that makes one thing match another in size or amount
Each person or group gets a share that matches what they gave
Surface Forms
Morphology
pro + rata
This is a fixed Latin borrowing used as a legal/financial formula meaning 'in proportion'; its components are not productive English words with transparent meanings for a B1 learner. Even if a learner recognizes 'pro' as a prefix, 'rata' is not an English lexical item and the overall meaning is conventionalized rather than derivable from the parts, so it would be opaque to most learners.
Etymology
Pro rata comes from Latin words pro and rata and paints the picture of giving out something by each person's share. Imagine cutting a cake so everyone gets a piece that matches how much they paid or worked; that image shows why pro rata means giving or charging things 'in proportion to a rate'.