mete
1to distribute or apportion by measure; allot; dole (usually followed by out): to mete out punishment.
Archaic. to measure.
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- un·met·ed, adjective
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Other definitions for mete (2 of 3)
a limiting mark.
a limit or boundary.
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Other definitions for Met.E. (3 of 3)
metallurgical engineer.
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Poshmark started taking applications from eligible sellers on Thursday for the company’s second round of its Heart and Hustle Fund, a $500,000 pot of money that the platform plans to mete out this summer.
Why Poshmark started its own seller fund to support loyal platform users | Erika Wheless | July 2, 2021 | DigidayA company that has a just clause policy “has to show that the discipline that was meted out to a particular worker was proportionate to the alleged thing that they did wrong,” DeCarava said.
Controversy around newsrooms’ social media policies emboldening the call for unionized media workplaces | Sara Guaglione | June 7, 2021 | DigidayThe stories are ideal for short trips, and the collection will appeal to listeners from nonage to senectitude, as long as they enjoy justice meted out with merry malice.
The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car | Katherine A. Powers | May 27, 2021 | Washington PostArlington’s county manager does not want a civilian group to have the power to launch investigations of police conduct and mete out discipline.
County manager in Arlington pushes weaker police review board | Rachel Weiner | May 19, 2021 | Washington PostThat includes 11 countries in which death is the punishment meted out for those convicted of homosexuality and other “crimes” of sexual and gender non-conformity.
Womankind has long known that style can be used as a weapon to mete out psychological torment.
Michelle Obama and Ann Romney: First Ladies of Style | Robin Givhan | October 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNavarro worries that may mean the politically powerful Flores family will mete out their own brand of justice.
Could an Insanity Plea Free Joran van der Sloot? | Barbie Latza Nadeau | March 8, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThat's why Google has decided to slowly mete out the "invites" to its new Google Voice telephone service.
Indeed, Uncle Frank must endeavor to keep in mind, that with what measure we mete it shall be measured to us again.
Mike Marble | Uncle FrankFor with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged: and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousNothing would be more unworthy of this nation, than with a mean and mechanical rule, to mete out the splendour of the Crown.
Thoughts on the Present Discontents | Edmund BurkeNan ancre seruant ne ahte bi rihte to easkin iset hure bute mete hure ha mei flutte bi; ant godes milce.
Petruchio, in "The Taming of the Shrew," calls the tailor's measuring-yard his mete-yard.
British Dictionary definitions for mete (1 of 2)
/ (miːt) /
(usually foll by out) formal to distribute or allot (something, often unpleasant)
poetic, dialect (to) measure
Origin of mete
1British Dictionary definitions for mete (2 of 2)
/ (miːt) /
rare a mark, limit, or boundary (esp in the phrase metes and bounds)
Origin of mete
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