Search Result for "per capita":
Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. per person;
- Example: "among the states Connecticut has a high per capita income"


ADVERB (1)

1. per person;
- Example: "we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district"
[syn: per capita, for each person, of each person]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

per capita adv 1: per person; "we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district" [syn: per capita, for each person, of each person] adj 1: per person; "among the states Connecticut has a high per capita income"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "per capita": all, apiece, aside, distributional, distributive, each, each to each, equal, even stephen, fifty-fifty, half, half-and-half, halvers, one by one, particular, per, per annum, per head, pro rata, proportional, proportionate, prorated, respective, respectively, several, severally
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

PER CAPITA, by the head or polls. This term is applied when an estate is to be divided share and share alike. For example, if a legacy be given to the issue of A B, and A B at the time of his death, shall have two children and two grandchildren, his estate shall be divided into four parts, and the children and grandchildren shall each have one of them. 3 Ves. 257; 13 Ves. 344. Vide 1 Rop. on Leg. 126, 130.