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Pro rata   /proʊ rˈætə/   Listen
preposition
Pro  prep.  A Latin preposition signifying for, before, forth.
Pro confesso (Law), taken as confessed. The action of a court of equity on that portion of the pleading in a particular case which the pleading on the other side does not deny.
Pro rata. In proportion; proportion.
Pro re nata (Law), for the existing occasion; as matters are.


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





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"Pro rata" Quotes from Famous Books



... saw myself surrounded, found a precious stimulus for my courage and a convenient soothing draught for conscience. Even had all been plain sailing, I do not hint that I should have drawn back. Smuggling is one of the meanest of crimes, for by that we rob a whole country pro rata, and are therefore certain to impoverish the poor: to smuggle opium is an offence particularly dark, since it stands related not so much to murder, as to massacre. Upon all these points I was quite clear; my sympathy was all in arms against my interest; and had not Jim ...
— The Wrecker • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne


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