meteredadj.
/ˈmiːtəd/, U.S. /ˈmidərd/ 1.
a. Measured, supplied, or regulated by means of a meter.
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1877 Fitchburg (Mass.) Daily Sentinel 14 Apr. Here the price of metered water is 50 cents per 1000 gallons for the first 100,000 gallons taken.
1907 A. Hazen Clean Water & how to get It xiii. 136 Improvements in schedules of charges for metered water are slowly but surely being made by the water departments of the country.
1968 Listener 27 June 851/1 The trouble is that in this country taxi-drivers who work for garages and not for themselves are commonly paid no set wages, but instead a proportion of the metered fare—say, 40 per cent.
1985 C. S. Ward Anaesthetic Equipm. (ed. 2) v. 86/2 (caption) A carefully metered proportion of the gases pass through the vaporization chamber.
1995 Which? Oct. 6/3 What's likely to happen next is an increase in the number of households with a metered supply.
b. Of mail: that has been passed through a franking machine. Originally U.S.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [adjective] > measured by a meter
metered1920
1920 Los Angeles Times 7 Nov. iv. 12/7 ‘Metered mail’ is to be the next novelty in the rapidly developing postal system of the country... Metered mail will be sealed, stamped and canceled by the individual owner of a meter.
1928 M. Rittenberg Mail-order made Easy xiv. 177 ‘Metered’ mail—where a printed impression is put on the envelope instead of an adhesive stamp.
1982 J. Mackay Guinness Bk. Stamps 22 Metered mail 3530 000 000.
1992 N.Y. Times 18 Oct. ix. 15/3 The purpose of sprayed-on postmarks is..to confirm that metered mail has not been back-dated to deceive addressees about when an item was sent.
2. Provided or equipped with a meter or meters.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [adjective] > type of restricted parking
metered1892
unilateral1945
1892 W. G. Kent Water Meter ix. 95 The proportion of towns already metered is still comparatively small, but in view of the results obtained will no doubt rapidly increase.
1957 New Yorker 26 Oct. 36/1 You can park scooters almost anywhere without getting a ticket. In a metered area, the usual thing is to park them sidewise, between two parked cars.
1960 Guardian 13 Jan. 6/7 When all Mayfair becomes metered..the position of the motorists will be worse than ever.
1963 ‘W. Haggard’ High Wire iii. 24 This was a metered parking ground.
1991 Holiday Which? Mar. 78/4 Taxis are all metered, and the flagfall starts at about £2.20 for the first two kilometres, then 40p for each additional 395 metres.
1993 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. i. 45/1 Unlike airport taxis, for-hire cars must park in metered spaces at La Guardia or wait for fares on the side streets of Queens.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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