metered

verb

past tense of meter
as in measured

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  1. measured
  2. dispensed
  3. administered
  4. prorated
  5. divided
  6. distributed
  7. allotted
  8. apportioned
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  • The day’s events are measured in minutes, a ticking clock; the grief in years, a beating heart.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Chickpeas inside the microwave was measured below proper hot holding temperature.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of measured
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  • Sales of prepared food and dispensed beverages also increase slightly less than anticipated.
    — Ananya Chetia, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Saum Poorsaleh, San Diego police public information officer, said his department had issued more than 50 citations at Sunset Cliffs and dispensed about 350 warnings, written and oral, since mid-June.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of dispensed
Verb
  • The funding is administered by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, a non-profit founded in 1955 to conduct the annual National Merit Scholarship Program.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The census, which is administered every 10 years and is next set for 2030, is also considering asking about each respondent’s citizenship, a departure from past practice, which could discourage the participation of immigrants.
    — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of administered
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  • Full refund before your first privacy report, then prorated based on unused time in the subscription.
    — Brian Sloan, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Awards for short-term training will likely be prorated for the program's length.
    — Cory Turner, NPR, 10 June 2026
Definition of prorated
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  • The large-scale protests might have signaled to Beijing that the Hong Kong public was becoming more politically divided and that Tung was losing control.
    — Kanis Leung, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Like the public writ large, the House of Representatives and the Senate are divided so deeply that Americans don’t have confidence in their ability to make hard choices.
    — Tara Sonenshine, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of divided
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  • After four hurricanes struck Florida in 2004, Maines noticed the federal government had distributed millions of dollars in disaster assistance in Miami-Dade County, even though the county had barely been touched by the storms.
    — Sally Kestin, Sun Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Posters started showing up around town, distributed by graphic artist Milton Glaser‘s students at the School of Visual Arts.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of distributed
Verb
  • The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, which covers an area just outside New Orleans and was allotted the highest amount — nearly $4 million through 2025 — did not respond to more than a dozen calls and emails.
    — Aneri Pattani — KFF Health News, STAT, 27 Aug. 2026
  • For example, the original plan by the department’s consultant assumed that the park would have access to a sewer main and allotted about $76,000 for a routine sewer connection.
    — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of allotted
Verb
  • Parties with less than 5% of the vote are excluded from the legislature, with their votes apportioned to the larger parties.
    — Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Because the tax was not apportioned among the states as the Constitution required, those provisions were unconstitutional.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of apportioned
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