Word Study
per capita
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective per capita has 1 sense
Adverbial per capita has 1 sense
- per capita(r = adv.all) for each person, of each person - per person; "we are spending $5,000 per capita annually for education in this district"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
per capita, adv. & adj. (also per caput) for each person.
Etymology
L, = by heads
THESAURUS
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
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