Definition of "ratable" [rat•a•ble]

• That can be rated, estimated, or appraised: ratable income. (adjective)
• Proportional. (adjective)
• Chiefly British Liable to assessment; taxable. (adjective)

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• "People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted."
• "And when they took the really bad tranches from the original securitizations and put them all together to make one new tranche that the rating agencies, they said this stuff was not even ratable, and now we're going to make it, you know, AAA."
• "Under the 1780 constitution, incorporated towns were entitled to a representative if they had 150 ratable polls (tax-paying men over sixteen years of age), two if they had 375, three if they had 600, and an additional representative for every 225 ratable polls above that number.57 (That helps explain why the provision that “the number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand” in the federal Constitution could seem ridiculously inadequate.)"