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
The ratable estate in the colony averaged sixty pounds per inhabitant at this time.
From The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut by Greene, Maria Louise
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
The ratable value of the metropolis, or rather the district of the Metropolitan Board, is £23,960,109.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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)
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