Capitation is an English word with synonyms like tax or taxation. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Capitation meaning
- Performing a headcount; the counting of people.
- A head tax.
- A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
Using Capitation
- The main meaning on this page is: Performing a headcount; the counting of people. | A head tax. | A system of remuneration for providers of health care, in which providers enroll patients as permanent clients and receive a fixed periodic payment for each enrollee.
- Useful related words include: tax, taxation, revenue enhancement.
- In the example corpus, capitation often appears in combinations such as: capitation grant, the capitation, no capitation.
Context around Capitation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 12 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Capitation
- In this selection, "capitation" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, programme, insufficient, own, grant, tax and grants stand out and add context to how "capitation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and a capitation tax a and disbursed the capitation grants to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "capitation" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbo, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with capitation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Compounding the burden, the assessment on the capitation did not remain stable. (12 words)
The apportionment requirement again applies only to real estate and capitation taxes. (12 words)
To make matters worse, Ssenyonyi said that even the insufficient capitation grant is not released in a timely manner. (19 words)
Giving the background, Ladele said, “It was an actuarial recommendation that payments of capitation, fee-for-service and admin fee be reviewed on the average of every two years, in view of inflationary trends in the economy. (37 words)
Mr. Gyedu highlighted on Government’s numerous policies, such as the Free Senior High School (SHS), School Feeding Programme, Capitation grant, Free School Uniforms, the New Curriculum for Basic school and infrastructure development to promote education. (36 words)
The nobles did not escape assessment, but they obtained the right to appoint their own capitation tax assessors, which allowed them to escape most of the burden (in one calculation, they escaped ⅞ of it). (35 words)
Example sentences (17)
Dr Apaak alleged that for two years now, government had not disbursed the capitation grants to ensure the smooth running of basic public schools in the country.
Dr Apaak listed several challenges facing public basic schools in Ghana, including delayed releases of capitation grants, Infrastructural deficits, poor toilet facilities and lack of textbooks from KG to JHS.
To make matters worse, Ssenyonyi said that even the insufficient capitation grant is not released in a timely manner.
Mr. Gyedu highlighted on Government’s numerous policies, such as the Free Senior High School (SHS), School Feeding Programme, Capitation grant, Free School Uniforms, the New Curriculum for Basic school and infrastructure development to promote education.
Predominantly among the challenges according to them, included; the lack of chalk, and textbooks, no capitation grant and collection of special levies, as well as no extra classes.
This cost is not factored in the capitation that public schools receive from the government under the free primary education programme.
Giving the background, Ladele said, “It was an actuarial recommendation that payments of capitation, fee-for-service and admin fee be reviewed on the average of every two years, in view of inflationary trends in the economy.
The National Youth Employment Programme, School Feeding Programme, Capitation Grant, the National Health Insurance Scheme, Free Maternal Care, introduction of Metro Mass Transit, among others, were part of President Kufuor’s legacies, he said.
Among them, "No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken".
An income tax is neither a poll tax nor a capitation, as the amount of tax will vary from person to person, depending on each person's income.
Compounding the burden, the assessment on the capitation did not remain stable.
Foner 375. Some states assessed property owners by a combination of land value and a capitation tax, a tax on each worker employed.
Indeed, the requirement for apportionment is pretty strictly limited to taxes on real and personal property and capitation taxes.
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
The apportionment requirement again applies only to real estate and capitation taxes.
The diseased and the infirm were carried in; the age of each was estimated; and, that the capitation -tax might be enlarged, years were added to the young and struck off from the old.
The nobles did not escape assessment, but they obtained the right to appoint their own capitation tax assessors, which allowed them to escape most of the burden (in one calculation, they escaped ⅞ of it).
Common combinations with capitation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- capitation grant 6×
- the capitation 5×
- no capitation 3×
- and capitation 3×
- capitation grants 2×
- of capitation 2×
- programme capitation 2×
- capitation or 2×
- capitation tax 2×
- capitation taxes 2×