prorates
- present tense form of prorate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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They turned $4.5 million of Roullier’s base salary into a signing bonus, which prorates over the final three years of his deal and saves them $3 million in salary cap space this season.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2022
Cartons of milk at a dollar store are only 16 ounces – which prorates to $8 per gallon, more than what you’d pay for even top-of-the line milk at Whole Foods.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2018
Last year, they led the N.H.L. with 65 fighting majors; this season they were tied for 22nd with 18, which prorates to 31 over a full season.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2013
Colonel Ernest O. Thompson, chairman of the Railroad Commission which prorates Texas oil production, declared that Texas' 400,000 bbls. daily curtailment was being offset by uncontrolled production elsewhere.*
From Time Magazine Archive
