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
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 Clark S. Beardslee
The claim was rejected in 1885 on the ground that deafness existed prior to enlistment, and also because of no ratable disability by reason of alleged wound in the cheek.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
As a matter of fact, the Russian idea of literary men is that they all hold some government or other appointment, on the committee of censorship, for example,--some ratable position.
From Russian Rambles by Isabel Florence Hapgood
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 James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
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