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per cap•i•ta

Pronunciation: (pur kap'i-tu), [key]
1. by or for each individual person: income per capita.
2. Law.noting or pertaining to a method of dividing an estate by which all those equally related to the decedent take equal shares individually without regard to the number of lines of descent. Cf. per stirpes.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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