metered

1. 1
   adjective

   Equipped with a meter that measures or controls consumption, as for gas, electricity, water, or parking.

   The downtown lots are metered, charging by the hour.

   Households on a metered connection pay only for the electricity they actually use.

   Oppositeunmetered

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of meter.

   The city metered each household's water during the drought.

   Engineers had metered the output before the plant went online.

   Note

   Behind the one form sit three distinct actions: measuring with a device, stamping mail through a postage meter, and releasing something in regulated amounts. That last use reaches beyond fluids, so anticipation or breath can be metered as well as water. Placed before a noun as a description rather than an action, the participle shades into the "fitted with a meter" adjective.

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