commensurate

/kəˈmen·sə·rət/ adj

Definition

› suitable in amount or quality compared to something else; matching in degree: The agency’s workload has increased without any commensurate increase in staff.

(Definition of commensurate adj from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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