The word "metered" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that is regulated by specific measurements or amounts. Example sentence: The water supply to the city is metered so that households pay according to their usage.
The alternative is to pay 20 cents for each message with no plan; there is little in between.Unlimited plans comfort subscribers who fear sudden gushes of overage fees when they exceed metered text plans.
Also, although the water piped into urban bathtubs is carefully metered, the state cannot yet monitor groundwater consumption in California.
Despite looming shortages, most domestic water use is still not metered, so householders have no incentive to turn off their taps and hoses.
How many people will volunteer to have their phones, tablets and laptops metered?More likely Nielsen or someone else will start to use several different panels and incorporate big new streams of data (from millions of set-top boxes, for example).
Water is metered and priced, but the small quantity needed for human survival is given away free.Energy is another area where the Johannesburg summit is likely to produce results—or, at least, aspirations, perhaps in the form of targets for increasing the global share of renewable energy.
For the moment most of the firm's customers are in Dubai itself, but it should find more than a few abroad.Significantly, once devices are connected and their use can be metered, there is no longer any need to buy them.
The environment agency points to research that shows water metering is the most effective method of reducing consumer usage, with metered properties using around 15 per cent less water.
Some loans are metered extended by formal banks or registered trust companies under the eye of regulators but many are kept off the meter.
The all-access metered-paywall model favoured by American newspapers is problematic in Britain.
Usually, the metered-dose aerosol or inhaler is placed in the mouth for use.
The Financial Times, which helped to pioneer the metered-paywall model, which allows readers to read a certain number of stories a month before being charged, has gone further in this direction than any other major newspaper.
