Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Per unit of population; per person: In that year, Americans earned $15,304 per capita. Among the states, Connecticut has a high per capita income.
- adv. Equally to each individual.
Wiktionary
- adj. per person
- adj. shared equally among all individuals
- adv. per person
- adv. equally among all individuals
WordNet 3.0
- adv. per person
- adj. per person
Etymologies
- From Latin (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin, by heads : Latin per, per + Latin capita, accusative pl. of caput, head. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Looking at its contemporary prosperity and dynamism, it is difficult to recall that the ROK's per capita income was a meagre US$79 in 1960.”
DFAT Speech: The ROK - An Emerging Economic and Strategic Power
“My firm, the China Market Research Group, estimates that 350 million Chinese now live in households that can afford automobiles, and gross domestic product per capita is rising 10% a year.”
“The English-speaking countries tend to be the strongest-performing markets in terms of per capita video/DVD consumption.”
“The gold mines have gone but the diamonds remain and the city has one of the highest per capita incomes in the country in order to entice workers to a place which has snow for eight months of the year and temperatures drop to minus 30C in winter.”
The Guardian: William and Kate presented with diamonds in Yellowknife
“Between 1960 and 1995, the ROK's per capita GDP rose a staggering 13,000 per cent.”
DFAT Speech: The ROK - An Emerging Economic and Strategic Power
“Delivering the first convocation address of the Bharathidasan University's constituent college for women, Ponnavaikko said that the country remained poor with respect to per capita income though it has good gross domestic product (GDP) growth and purchase power parity.”
“Brazil and Mexico 1987 GNP per capita of U.S. $2,020 and $1,830, respectively are other NICs included in our sample.”
Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
“Indeed two of our highest-growth markets - Singapore and Hong Kong - have higher per capita incomes than Australia.”
“The relatively high per capita GNP places Korea among the so-called newly industrialized countries NICs.”
Simon & Schuster: Strategic Management in Developing Countries Case Studies
“We further recommend that a (5) five-cent per capita collection be lifted in all our churches this conference year, to aid said church, the money so collected to be forwarded to the pastor of said church at Washington, D. C.,”
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Pop Latin
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viva voce, vide supre, vide, supra, stet, status quo, sine qua non, sine die, sic, quid pro quo, pro rata, pro bono and 24 more...
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Formal Essay Words
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sagacity, perspicacious, per capita, perpensity, despumate, litigate, ruminate, relegate, peregrination, zeitgeist, carte blanche, quid pro quo and 33 more...
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corrode, expeditiously, convey, permeate, recede, animism, deify, ecclesiastical, exalt, pious, aggravate, decrepit and 32 more...
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