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to prorate

to prorate

4 7.8
To split an amount based on time used
  • verb
  • /ˈproʊreɪt/
: prorratear
  • If you decide to leave early, your rent will be prorated to reflect the days you didn't occupy the apartment.

So this means anything that the seller owes as far as taxes, trash, sewer, all this stuff, it gets prorated, which means to the day of close.

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Examples

  • Hostile fire pay is now prorated so that you get paid per day in country, rather than per month.

    Blog text (4)

  • In the absence of a cooperative management plan with Mexico, allocations are prorated by the percent biomass in U.S. and Mexican waters.

    Academic text (2000)

  • The bill does not take away combat pay; it does prorate benefits.

    Blog text (4)

  • If you sign your contract over to me, I'll prorate your losses.

    Slap Shot (1977)

  • The card company can only refund the full amount of the charge; they will not prorate.

    Blog text (24)

  • The pay is now prorated day for day.

    Blog text (4)

  • Normally, if you do get laid off, the bonus is prorated by how much of the year you worked.

    Blog text (15)

  • The amount of free tuition they are eligible for is prorated.

    Blog text (21)

  • The benefit would have been prorated to provide higher incomes to those with 35 years or more of contributions.

    Academic text (2007)

  • So this means anything that the seller owes as far as taxes, trash, sewer, all this stuff, it gets prorated, which means to the day of close.

    Ryan Pineda

Synonyms

to proportion
vsto prorate
1 5.3

To divide something into parts according to a set share

divides by time amount or rate to calculate each share

How Proportional

to prorate
4 7.8
to apportion
8 7.0
to allocate
88 4.5
to divide
494 1.1
to split
452 1.3

Surface Forms

prorate infinitive
prorated past
prorated past participle
prorating present participle
prorates third person singular

Morphology

prorate = rate (semi-transparent) = pro + rate

Formally built from 'pro' + 'rate' and meaning 'according to rate', but the Latin-derived 'pro' sense ('in proportion') is less obvious to average learners.

Etymology

The word prorate comes from the parts pro- and rate. Rate means a 'price' or 'amount', and pro- means 'according to', so to prorate something is to split a fee or charge 'according to' how much time or share someone used.