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proportionate
[ adjective pruh-pawr-shuh-nit, -pohr-; verb pruh-pawr-shuh-neyt, -pohr- ]
verb (used with object)
- to make proportionate.
proportionate
adjective
- being in proper proportion
verb
- tr to make proportionate
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Derived Forms
- proˈportionately, adverb
- proˈportionateness, noun
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Other Words From
- pro·portion·ate·ly adverb
- pro·portion·ate·ness noun
- nonpro·portion·ate adjective
- nonpro·portion·ate·ly adverb
- nonpro·portion·ate·ness noun
- unpro·portion·ate adjective
- unpro·portion·ate·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of proportionate1
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Example Sentences
By comparison, a proportionate range in a country the size of the United States is 475,000 to 7,473,000.
The case against Megaupload might not be proportionate, wise, or able to withstand legal scrutiny.
Government spokesman Nasser al-Mana'a insisted the government had no choice but to attack and had used proportionate violence.
But this we certainly know: In six days, Israel lost 800 men, roughly proportionate to American losses in the entire Vietnam War.
But we routinely base character judgments on actions, confidence being proportionate to the length of the track record.
The fundamental equation of the economist, then, is that the value of everything is proportionate to its cost.
Are not these legitimate investments in the common stock of the nation, which should command a proportionate interest?
But as soon as she had made this great advance, virginal instinct suggested a proportionate retreat.
At the start, Mona was in nature proportionate to her size; and when she married she had not loved Crozier as he had loved her.
In the Kentish laws provision is made for widows to receive a proportionate share in their husbands' property.
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