Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a commensurate manner; so as to be commensurate; correspondingly; adequately.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately.
- adverb With equal measure or extent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
commensurate manner; so as to beequal orproportionate ;adequately ;proportionately . - adverb With equal measure or extent.
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Examples
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I sent a high-handed email pointing out that "commensurately" and "commensurably" were not the same word.
The Guardian World News Tim Dowling 2011
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And as the industry went deeper, it didn't commensurately increase its safety margin -- or prepare for the worst-case scenario.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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Economies are in balance if productivity gains result in commensurately higher salaries for employees that allow them to buy the larger number of products and services that those productivity increases allow corporations to manufacture and sell.
Robert Creamer: Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation Robert Creamer 2011
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Chief X Officers (whether X = Executive, Financial, Marketing, Operations, etc.) get paid really well, this is because the expectations are commensurately high, and performance is expected and required.
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Economies are in balance if productivity gains result in commensurately higher salaries for employees that allow them to buy the larger number of products and services that those productivity increases allow corporations to manufacture and sell.
Robert Creamer: Growing Economic Inequality the Root Cause of Economic Stagnation Robert Creamer 2011
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And as the industry went deeper, it didn't commensurately increase its safety margin -- or prepare for the worst-case scenario.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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This means that if inflation comes in below the Fed's 1.7 to 2 percent unofficial target for a period of time, the central bank would seek to "make up" for it in the form of commensurately above-target inflation afterward.
N.Y. Fed chief Dudley: 'Further action likely to be warranted' Neil Irwin 2010
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That said, I tend to think it would be better if the Court came up with decision procedures a bit more fully specified than “eyeball it and do a gut check,” relied less on balancing tests, and had commensurately less need for empathetic justices.
Empathic Justice 2009
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And as the industry went deeper, it didn't commensurately increase its safety margin -- or prepare for the worst-case scenario.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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But the number of people working in agriculture hasn't dropped commensurately, according to Arvind Panagariya, a professor of Indian political economy at Columbia University in New York.
In India, Doubts Gather Over Rising Giant's Course Paul Beckett 2011
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