SLIDING SCALE • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Sliding scale

... Peel explained his financial policy. His intention was to abandon the sliding scale altogether, to impose for the present a duty of ten shillings a quarter on corn when the price of it was under forty-eight shillings a quarter, to reduce that duty by one shilling for every shilling ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... company, and they were to receive as remuneration 11 per cent. upon the amount of the specification. But should they exceed the contract price then the 11 per cent. was to be proportionately decreased by an arranged sliding scale, provided, however, that Van Hattum and Co. did not exceed the specification by more than 100 per cent., in which latter case the Company would have the right to cancel the contract. By this provision Messrs. Van Hattum and Co. could increase the cost by 100 ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick