Usually means: Allocate or distribute resources fairly.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. mete: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mete: Merriam-Webster
  3. mete, mete: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mete, mete: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mete: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mete: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mete, mete: Wordnik
  8. mete: Wiktionary
  9. mete: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mete: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mete: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mete, met.e, mete: Dictionary.com
  13. mete (n.), mete (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mete: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mete: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mete: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mete: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mete: Rhymezone
  19. Mete: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mete: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mete: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mete: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mete: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. mete: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mete: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mete: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. METE: Acronym Finder
  2. mete: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. METE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mete: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mete: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See meted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mete)

verb:  (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
noun:  A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
adjective:  Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”). [(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.]

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