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Definition: Prorate |
ProrateVerb1. Divide or assess proportionally; "The rent was prorated for the rest of the month". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Prorate \Pro*rate"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Prorated; present participle verb or noun Prorating.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | A quantity provision in a fruit or vegetable marketing order that is intended to even out weekly shipments (or shipments for some other specified periods of time); it aims to prevent too much of the regulated commodity from entering the commercial market at the same time and thereby depressing prices. (references) |
Finance | To allocate between two or more parties, the proportionate share of each. For example, the payment of property taxes or insurance premiums may be prorated between buyer and seller. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Prorate |
| English words defined with "prorate": Pro rata, Prorated, Prorating. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prorate": claims clerk ♦ Marketing orders and agreements ♦ PAYROLL CLERK ♦ VOUCHER CLERK. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Prorate" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (prorates). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prorate | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prorate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نسبي (comparative, genealogical, proportional, relative), وفقا لحصة كذا, وزع بالنسب, بنسبة كذا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разпределям пропорционално, разделям пропорционално (proportion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 按"例分配 (Prorated, Prorating). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سرشکن کردن , به نسبت تقسیم کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | distribuer au prorata. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anteilmäßig verteilen, anteilmäßig aufteilen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κανονίζω κατ' αναλογία, μοιράζω κατ' αναλογίαν. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | arányos rész (prorata portion, quota). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dividere proporzionalmente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 割"てる (to allot, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate), 割り振る (to allot, to assess, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate), 割り"てる (to allot, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | わりふる (to allot, to assess, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate), わりあてる (to allot, to assign, to distribute, to divide among, to prorate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oratepray ratear (assess, average). (various references) распределять пропорционально. (various references) proporcionalno podeliti. (various references) prorratear (apportion), prorrata. (various references) eşit olarak dağıtmak, eşit şekilde bölmek. (various references) розподіляти пропорційно, пропорційна частка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "prorate": prorated, prorates. (additional references) | |
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"Prorate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: irrorata, porrage, Porretta, Porrit, portare, prograte, prolate, propriate, prorata, prorater, Prosafe, psoralen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prorate" (pronounced prō"rā"t) |
| 3 | -r ā" t | berate, crate, desecrate, freight, grate, great, irate, overrate, rate, straight, Strait, trait, underrate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: praetor. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-o-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: parrot, porter, prater, pretor, protea, raptor, report. | |
-2 letters: aport, apter, oater, opera, orate, pareo, parer, pater, peart, prate, raper, rater, repot, repro, retro, roper, taper, tarre, terra, toper, trope. | |
-3 letters: aero, aper, atop, orra, pare, parr, part, pate, pear, peat, pert, poet, pore, port, prao, prat, proa, rape, rapt, rare, rate, rato, reap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-o-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: forepart, operator, parroket, parroted, parroter, perorate, praetors, predator, priorate, prorated, prorates, teardrop. | |
+2 letters: cartopper, copartner, corporate, foreparts, imperator, operators, parrokets, parroters, patroller, perborate, perforate, perorated, perorates, porterage, portrayed, portrayer, precatory, predators, predatory, prefatory, preformat, pretorian, priorates, procreant, procreate, prorogate, prosateur, prostrate, pterosaur, reoperate, reportage, reprobate, retropack, separator, spearwort, teardrops, temporary. | |
+3 letters: baroceptor, cartoppers, cooperator, copartners, depredator, evaporator, expiratory, expurgator, extirpator, imperators, orthoptera, patrollers, perborates, percolator, perforated, perforates, perforator, permafrost, perorating, peroration, personator, porterages, portrayers, postarrest, praetorial, praetorian, preformats, prefrontal, preparator, prestorage, pretorians, procaryote, procreated, procreates, procreator, prokaryote, pronatores, propraetor, prorogated, prorogates, prosateurs, prostrated, prostrates, protracted, pterosaurs, rapporteur, reoperated, reoperates, reparation, replicator, reportable, reportages, reprobated, reprobates, repudiator, respirator, retropacks, separators, spearworts, sportswear, tetraspore, waterpower, waterproof. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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