per capita

3 definitions found

per capita - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  per capita
      adv 1: per person; "we are spending $5,000 per capita annually
             for education in this district" [syn: per capita, for  each person
             , of each person]
      adj 1: per person; "among the states Connecticut has a high per
             capita income"

per capita - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  PER CAPITA, by the head or polls. This term is applied when an estate is to 
  be divided share and share alike. For example, if a legacy be given to the 
  issue of A B, and A B at the time of his death, shall have two children and 
  two grandchildren, his estate shall be divided into four parts, and the 
  children and grandchildren shall each have one of them. 3 Ves. 257; 13 Ves. 
  344. Vide 1 Rop. on Leg. 126, 130. 
  
  

per capita - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "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