What is the meaning of protorate?
What does “prorate” in following sentence mean?
What is the difference between dropping your first month membership and enrolling
after you want to enroll?
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predictable? If you read the first chapter about a man and woman suddenly thrown together by circumstances, you know that they will fall in love by the end of the book. Everyone who reaches the end of a romance novel and says, “Zounds!” (I’m referring to the name of the characters)? How do a hero and his/her heroine end up marriage? What did you think of the ending of the story? “Well, such a person no doubt finds the world a place full of wonder and amazement. ”
According to Merriam-Webster’s Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003), the verb prorate has two meanings in English—one transitive and one intransitive:
prorate vt (1860) : to divide, distribute, or assess proportionately vi : to make a pro rata distribution
[ Merriam-Webster Online has a similar treatment of That’s
an example: When you use transitively, the prices will be assessed or more precisely, reduced—by the exactement calculable figure of how many sessions (as a percentage of the total number offered) a later arrival has missed prior to enrolling. I mean that an average dictionary meaning of two sentences is good.
Pro-rate means they measure their rates and prices and they calculate price discounts. In the present project each project costs 25% per project; it can be a good proportion of the total cost.
If you enroll after the start of the session, the discount will be proportional with the amount of sessions you’ve missed.
Pro rata
adj. 509, at 451. : proportional.
As the pound has fallen costs have risen on a pro rata basis”
adv. I want to learn proportionally.
The fees of tutors will rise as salaries.”Source:
Oxford Dictionaries.
When it comes to the question “Why is prorate used when it’s mentioned in the Oxford English dictionary as being in the lexicon of US English? I sounded the latter phrase in English: the sound-effect of it at a corporate level.
