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What does mete out mean?

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  1. To distribute something in portions; to apportion or dole out
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Navarro worries that may mean the politically powerful flores family will mete out their own brand of justice.
I am glad to say that the courts in my country are independent and still able to mete out justice, even if it is posthumous.
But a commitment to fairness and justice does not require the government or private citizens to mete out identical treatment.
In the final analysis Bill C-15B would give judges the ability to mete out greater sentences and come down hard on those who are convicted.
The System Security Force is there to keep order, feared and untouchable because of the violence they mete out to anyone who crosses them.
We must overcome the dictatorship in these countries that mete out such inhumane treatment to their own people.

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