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[kah-MEN-sahr-it, kah-MEN-shahr-it] 
1. equal in measure or extent
2. corresponding in size or extent; proportionate: "Ron did not understand the role of luck in success, and he expected his progress to be commensurate with his effort at every stage."
3. reducible to a common measure; commensurable; 'commensurate quantities'
adverb form: commensurately
noun form: commensuration
Origin:
Approximately 1641; borrowed from Late Latin, 'commensuratus': literally, measured with (Latin 'com-': together + Late Latin 'mensuratus,' past participle of 'mensurare': to measure, from Latin 'mensura': measure). In action:
"...the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed."
Maya Angelou (b. 1928). African American poet, autobiographer, and performer. "Chapter 18," I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1970).
"'For example, someone who is applying for a human resources manager's position with a company might put on his resume that he was a human resource manager at the company he previously worked for, when in reality he was just a human resource specialist,' he says. That single misrepresentation can snowball, because he then has to have a salary on his resume and/or application that would show his earnings commensurate with a human resource manager's instead of just a human resource specialist's, Landin adds."
Joseph Baneth Allen. "Resume fraud by job applicants on the rise," Charleston Regional Business Journal (May 31, 2004).
"At the same time, the economic downturn has forced State Parks to cut back. The entire department, which consists of more than 270 park units, underwent a cost-cutting plan to consolidate 23 statewide districts into 18 -- a downsizing begun under Gov. Gray Davis and hastened under his successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Starting this year, the Santa Cruz district, once managing parks only within the county, became responsible for parks in San Mateo County as well, but with no commensurate increase in staffing."
Kurtis Alexander. "New land acquisitions leave State Parks areas closed, unmanaged," Santa Cruz Sentinel (May 30, 2004).
"The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength, and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. 'Education,' Lectures and Biographical Sketches (1883, repr. 1904).
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