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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
Barbara Mikulski

Meaning of "disproportionately" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DISPROPORTIONATELY

disproportionately  [ˌdɪsprəˈpɔːʃ ənətlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DISPROPORTIONATELY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Disproportionately is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES DISPROPORTIONATELY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of disproportionately in the English dictionary

The definition of disproportionately in the dictionary is in a disproportionate manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DISPROPORTIONATELY


affectionately
əˈfɛkʃənətlɪ
co-ordinately
kəʊˈɔːdɪnətlɪ
compassionately
kəmˈpæʃ ənətlɪ
coordinately
kəʊˈɔːdɪnətlɪ
determinately
dɪˈtɜːmɪnətlɪ
discriminately
dɪsˈkrɪmɪnətlɪ
dispassionately
dɪsˈpæʃənətlɪ
effeminately
ɪˈfemɪnətlɪ
emarginately
ɪˈmɑːdʒɪˌnətlɪ
extortionately
ɪkˈstɔːʃ ənətlɪ
indiscriminately
ˌɪndɪsˈkrɪmɪnətlɪ
inordinately
ɪnˈɔːdɪnətlɪ
insubordinately
ˌɪnsəˈbɔːdɪnətlɪ
obstinately
ˈɒbstɪnətlɪ
opinionately
əˈpɪnjənətlɪ
ordinately
ˈɔːdɪnətlɪ
passionately
ˈpæʃənətlɪ
predominately
prɪˈdɒmɪnətlɪ
proportionately
prəˈpɔːʃənətlɪ
subordinately
səˈbɔːdɪnətlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DISPROPORTIONATELY

disprize
disprofess
disprofit
disproof
disproove
disproperty
disproportion
disproportionable
disproportionableness
disproportionably
disproportional
disproportionate
disproportionateness
disproportionation
dispropriate
disprovable
disproval
disprove
disprover
disprovide

WORDS THAT END LIKE DISPROPORTIONATELY

absolutely
accurately
adequately
alternately
appropriately
approximately
deliberately
delicately
desperately
fortunately
immediately
inappropriately
intimately
lately
legitimately
moderately
privately
separately
stately
ultimately
unfortunately

Synonyms and antonyms of disproportionately in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «disproportionately» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DISPROPORTIONATELY

Find out the translation of disproportionately to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of disproportionately from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «disproportionately» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

不成比例地
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desproporcionadamente
570 millions of speakers

English

disproportionately
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अधिकतर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير متناسب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

непропорционально
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desproporcionalmente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সামঞ্জস্যহীনভাবে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

de manière disproportionnée
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak seimbang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

proportional
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不釣り合いに
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불균형
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Disproportionately
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không tương xứng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அளவுக்கு மீறிய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असमानतेने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oransız olarak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sproporzionatamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieproporcjonalnie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

непропорційно
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

disproporționat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

δυσανάλογα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

buite verhouding
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oproportionerligt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uforholdsmessig
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of disproportionately

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPROPORTIONATELY»

The term «disproportionately» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.001 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DISPROPORTIONATELY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «disproportionately» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «disproportionately» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about disproportionately

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10 QUOTES WITH «DISPROPORTIONATELY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word disproportionately.
1
Ginny Brown-Waite
On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately dependent on the Social Security system for retirement income.
2
Robert Casey
I am fairly certain that my abortion position hurt me, because in a Democratic primary, where turnout is relatively low, liberal voters turn out in disproportionately large numbers and thus exercise a disproportionate influence on the outcome.
3
Yvette Clarke
There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.
4
Bainbridge Colby
I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
5
Gray Davis
There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.
6
Vito Fossella
I represent Staten Island and Brooklyn, and not just that the financial services industry is important to the U.S., but is disproportionately important to New York City.
7
Barbara Mikulski
Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
8
Grace Napolitano
Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.
9
Josette Sheeran
Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.
10
Michael K. Simpson
While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DISPROPORTIONATELY»

Discover the use of disproportionately in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to disproportionately and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Should Race Matter?: Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
aiming at the group with a disproportionately large black membership. Choosing to target the disproportionately black group of possible offenders seems clearly to be permissible in the case of the two vans, and so the fact that racial profiling, ...
David Boonin, 2011
2
Nutrition Through the Life Cycle
Approximately two-thirds of SGA newborns in the United States are disproportionately small, and one-third are proportionately small.33 Illustration 4.9 provides photos of newborns with differing sizes for gestational age. dSGA Infants who are ...
Judith Brown, Janet Isaacs, Bea Krinke, 2010
3
Murder and the Reasonable Man: Passion and Fear in the ...
RACE AND POLICE SHOOTINGS It is undisputed that Blacks are disproportionately represented among the victims of police shootings. In a comprehensive review of the literature to date on police use of deadly force, James Fyfe reports that ...
Cynthia Lee, 2003
4
The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America
This exception applies only to the extent the disproportionately large allocation consisted of depreciation from real property (other than items of nonrecourse deduction or partner nonrecourse deduction) that subsequently was used to secure ...
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Staff, Office of the Federal Register (U.S.), 1975
5
Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Racial and Ethnic ...
Table 3.2: Summary of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Offending by Crime Type Pattern Found in Arrest Data Source of Confirmation Lethal violence: Black youth most disproportionately involved Latino youth disproportionately ...
Darnell F. Hawkins, Kimberly Kempf-Leonard, 2010
6
Small and MediumSized Enterprises: Characteristics and ...
Overall, SMEs' share of U.S. exports is low, especially relative to their share of total U.S. output.1 This is partly due to some impediments to exporting falling disproportionately on smaller exporters. Information collected and analyzed by the ...
William Deese
7
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 26, Internal Revenue, PT. ...
secure the nonrecourse liability providing the distributed proceeds, and only if those proceeds were distributed as a return of capital and in the same proportion as the disproportionately large allocation. (5) Examples. The following examples  ...
Office of the Federal Register (U S ), 2009
8
What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable ...
One contrast (already mentioned) is that post-TMI-cancer increases are mostly and disproportionately radiosensitive ones (e.g., leukemia, lymphoma, lung cancer).171 This contrast supports R over S. But if R, not S alone (whose proxy ...
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, 2011
9
Infections of the Gastrointestinal System
... bilirubin may increase Non-specific increase in aminotransferases, bilirubin may be high Disproportionately increased ALP in CH Disproportionately increased ALP in CH Disproportionately increased ALP Increased ALP, AST > ALT Modest ...
Chetana Vaishnavi, 2013
10
Education Reform in Florida: Diversity and Equity in Public ...
Most of these districts have fairly high levels of Black versus White segregation ( greater than .35) and most (7 of 9) have more than 10 percent of their schools earning a D or F. Without exception, the disproportionately Black schools in each  ...
Kathryn M. Borman, Sherman Dorn, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DISPROPORTIONATELY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term disproportionately is used in the context of the following news items.
1
GOP road plans not viable for Michigan
Cutting the state income tax rate will disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals, while eliminating the Earned Income Tax Credit and ... «Detroit Free Press, Jul 15»
2
Despite population milestone, Latinos still lag in California politics
... advances in recent years — and they are significant — Latinos still make up a disproportionately small share of the state's elected officials. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
3
Dems Propose 'Historic' Abortion Rights Legislation
Anti-abortion politicians have been attaching the rider to important pieces of legislation each year since 1976, and it disproportionately affects ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
LA, pushing big water rate increases, seeks 18% more from typical …
... and outreach to low-income customers, and to ensure that the proposed rate increase does not disproportionately affect those customers. «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
5
Can compassionate conservatism make a comeback?
... efforts to improve the nation's fiscal health while increasing efforts into minority communities disproportionately affected by our justice system. «MSNBC, Jul 15»
6
Girls in Juvenile Facilities Often Abused, Report Says
Among the girls referred to the juvenile justice system — who are disproportionately impoverished African-Americans, Latinos and Native ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
7
Democrats' primary nightmare comes true: Alan Grayson runs for …
Democratic candidates tend to perform better in Florida in presidential-election years because their voters don't stay home disproportionately ... «Politico, Jul 15»
8
The Republican War on Wages
The reality that our increasing national wealth has gone disproportionately to a small percentage of the population has become impossible to ... «Politico, Jul 15»
9
New York City To Stop Jailing Some Nonviolent Offenders For Being …
The change follows mounting pressure to eliminate a bail system that disproportionately impacts low-income people of color who haven't even ... «ThinkProgress, Jul 15»
10
What the Hispanic Vote Says About Bernie Sanders's Chances
It's primarily a problem with moderate and less educated Democrats, regardless of race, which disproportionately affects his support among ... «New York Times, Jul 15»

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