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Proportionate   /prəpˈɔrʃənət/   Listen
adjective
Proportionate  adj.  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. "What is proportionate to his transgression."



verb
Proportionate  v. t.  (past & past part. proportionated; pres. part. proportionating)  To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.






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"Proportionate" Quotes from Famous Books



... through and over the machine in a minute; and in some of the most recent mills the web is as wide as one hundred and fifty-six inches (thirteen feet); this is very nearly double the average machine width of a very few years ago, while the speed has increased in proportionate ratio; only a few years ago the maximum speed was from two hundred and fifty to three hundred feet per minute; at this writing (1900) there are machines in operation which run as high as five hundred feet per minute. But great ...
— A Book of Exposition • Homer Heath Nugent

... British Budget of 1910 to Parliament, Mr. Lloyd George argued that the higher incomes and fortunes ought to bear a greater than proportionate share of the taxes, because present governmental expenditures were largely on their behalf, and because the new labor reforms were equally to ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling

... were open to us: (1) either to increase the quantity of silver in the dollar until the dollar of silver was intrinsically worth the gold in the gold dollar; or (2) debase the gold dollar-piece until it was reduced in value proportionate to the depreciation of silver since 1792. The latter expedient, without any seeming regard to the effect on contracts and the integrity of our monetary standard, was adopted: 6.589 per cent was taken out of the gold dollar, leaving ...
— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... that population in 1916. The religious census shows that 36.5 per cent of the church membership lived in communities of that size. Contrary to popular impression, the larger centers actually have a larger proportionate church membership than do the smaller communities. The facts show that the problem of advance of the Christian Church is more of a small-community problem than it is ...
— Church Cooperation in Community Life • Paul L. Vogt

... no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various


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