The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 3 plus 4 letter word PRO RATA
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result PRO RATA
- Men, splitting apart, strangely maintaining correspondence
- A raptor and a parrot remarkably commensurate
- Reason for arse needing one in proportion
- Alternative offered in a part exchange is equitable
- Article supporting publicity or thanks respectively
- A parrot, variegated correspondingly
- First to oust this person, American getting cheers, relatively speaking?
- Proportionately based voting system? Men answer with cheers
- A fair way of rewarding all involved in training a parrot
- For a sailor getting a raise, equitably distributed?
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The straight part
We know that "commensurate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case commensurate = pro rata.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does PRO RATA mean?
PRO RATA adverb- (of an allocation) In proportion to some factor that can be exactly calculated.