Commensurate
adjective
Being of equal size, value, or importance to something else.
Your salary will be commensurate with your experience and skills.
Often appears as...
- commensurate with
- commensurate to
adjective
Being of equal size, value, or importance to something else.
Your salary will be commensurate with your experience and skills.
Often appears as...
- commensurate with
- commensurate to
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Pro Tip 1/3Equal Contribution
Use 'commensurate' to discuss fairness in terms of input and output, like effort and reward.
They sought a division of profits commensurate with their investments.
Pro Tip 2/3Balance
'Commensurate' implies a sensible balance between items being compared.
The punishment should be commensurate with the crime.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
'Commensurate' is often used in professional settings to talk about salaries and responsibilities.
Job benefits will be commensurate with the level of the position.
Pro Tip 1/3Equal Contribution
Use 'commensurate' to discuss fairness in terms of input and output, like effort and reward.
They sought a division of profits commensurate with their investments.
Pro Tip 2/3Balance
'Commensurate' implies a sensible balance between items being compared.
The punishment should be commensurate with the crime.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
'Commensurate' is often used in professional settings to talk about salaries and responsibilities.
Job benefits will be commensurate with the level of the position.
Pro Tip 1/3Equal Contribution
Use 'commensurate' to discuss fairness in terms of input and output, like effort and reward.
They sought a division of profits commensurate with their investments.
Pro Tip 2/3Balance
'Commensurate' implies a sensible balance between items being compared.
The punishment should be commensurate with the crime.
Pro Tip 3/3Professional Context
'Commensurate' is often used in professional settings to talk about salaries and responsibilities.
Job benefits will be commensurate with the level of the position.
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Depression, the secret...
but feel miserable all the time, you think, "Why do I feel like this? I must have depression." And you set out to find treatment for it. But if you have a perfectly awful life, and you feel miserable all the time, the way you feel is commensurate with your life, and it doesn't occur to you to think,
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Beware of nominalizations...
"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
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Justice for gem miners ...
the global output they and the producing countries rarely get to see a commensurate percentage of the colored gemstone value to try and change things from the ground up I found it a social enterprise called somani which is a Swahili word meaning value we
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Depression, the secret...
but feel miserable all the time, you think, "Why do I feel like this? I must have depression." And you set out to find treatment for it. But if you have a perfectly awful life, and you feel miserable all the time, the way you feel is commensurate with your life, and it doesn't occur to you to think,
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Beware of nominalizations...
"Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account."
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Justice for gem miners ...
the global output they and the producing countries rarely get to see a commensurate percentage of the colored gemstone value to try and change things from the ground up I found it a social enterprise called somani which is a Swahili word meaning value we
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Morris Gleitzman
English Author
Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.
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Tristan Harris
American Activist
Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides us with near-complete knowledge without a commensurate level of agency isn't humane.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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Hu Jintao
Chinese Statesman
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
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Melissa Leong
Perceived value is paramount for most diners; a feeling of satisfaction that what you've paid for is commensurate with what you've received. That is, provided your expectations are rational.
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Phyllida Lloyd
English Director
I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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Boris Johnson
British Politician
We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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Daniel Kahneman
Israeli Psychologist
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
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Morris Gleitzman
English Author
Because kids are physically smaller, there's an assumption by people who haven't read a kids' book for a long time that their ideas and themes and problems and ambitions must be commensurately smaller and less important. I would venture that sometimes the opposite is true.
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Woody Harrelson
American Actor
When I had just started 'Cheers,' my nerves were ajangle, to put it mildly. I was absolutely terrified. What you're learning is to not show the fear, and to ultimately overcome it so that the level of relaxation is commensurate with the level of tension.
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Tristan Harris
American Activist
Our online news feeds aggregate all of the world's pain and cruelty, dragging our brains into a kind of learned helplessness. Technology that provides us with near-complete knowledge without a commensurate level of agency isn't humane.
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Sylvia Earle
American Scientist
It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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Hu Jintao
Chinese Statesman
The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.
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Melissa Leong
Perceived value is paramount for most diners; a feeling of satisfaction that what you've paid for is commensurate with what you've received. That is, provided your expectations are rational.
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Phyllida Lloyd
English Director
I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.
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Boris Johnson
British Politician
We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.
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Franz Kafka
Novelist
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
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Daniel Kahneman
Israeli Psychologist
The effort invested in 'getting it right' should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.
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