ratable
Americanadjective
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able to be rated or evaluated
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(of property) liable to payment of rates
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He’s just a very intelligent, manageable, smart, ratable kind of horse that will do anything his rider tells him to do.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
Dunstable to do duty & Receive priviledge there their neglect of Complyance notwithstanding, Unless the major part of the Inhabitants and ratable Estate belonging to the sd.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various
To direct the payment, therefore, of the whole amount of those claims which happened to be first adjudicated would prevent a ratable distribution of the fund among those equally entitled to its benefits.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 4, part 2: John Tyler by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
On the question to be determined he would have no advantage under a special act, inasmuch as there must be a ratable disability to entitle him to any payment in pursuance of its provisions.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)
And never could he imagine or allow that his personal weight, and force, and worth were ratable by gymnastic tests.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.
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