[
US
/pɹəˈpɔɹʃənətɫi/
]
[ UK /pɹəpˈɔːʃənətli/ ]
[ UK /pɹəpˈɔːʃənətli/ ]
ADVERB
- in proportion
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in proportion
the height of this wall must be reduced proportionately to give the room pleasant dimensions -
to a proportionate degree
your salary will rise proportionately to your workload
How To Use proportionately In A Sentence
- Managerial and middle-class occupations are over-represented in its ranks, while the working class is proportionately under-represented.
- The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome.
- Japanese children with reading disabilities often have disproportionately more difficulty reading and writing kanji than kana.
- In California, for example, a disproportionately high number of Hispanic teens are giving birth.
- These developments are having marked negative impacts on women at work, for they are disproportionately represented in casual employment, with high rates of casualisation in feminised industries.
- The overclass generally manage to pay less tax - proportionately, at least - than the rest of us. Times, Sunday Times
- As the roast darkens, caffeine and acidity decrease proportionately.
- Here on Boing Boing, you'll see that terms like "bukkake" and "anal" rank disproportionately high in our stat logs, relative to the number of times we actually use them in our posts (bats eyelashes innocently). Boing Boing: January 16, 2005 - January 22, 2005 Archives
- The Irish educate proportionately more young people to university level than the British.
- The T9000's built-in communications links enable the internal bandwidth of the parallel processor to expand proportionately to the number of processing nodes.