See also Rate, and raté
price or fee determined in relation to a particular scale or standard
price per unit for a service or product
relative speed
statistics: a measure of the frequency of a given event
wages calculated in relation to a unit of time
level of quality
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Etymology 1
From Old French, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte, from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, originally reckon, calculate”).
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rate (plural rates)
- An amount measured in relation to another amount.
- The car was speeding at a rate of ninety kilometres per hour.
- A price or fee determined in relation to a particular scale or standard.
- The central bank sets an interest rate.
- A price per unit for a service or product.
- Postal rates here are low.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
- (statistics) A measure of the frequency of a given event, typically expressed as the number of occurrences of the event for every thousand or hundred thousand people in the total population considered.
- The mortality rate in the country was unusually high.
- Wages calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- The pay rate is ten dollars per hour.
- A level of quality.
- This textbook is first rate.
Derived terms
- at any rate
- flat rate
- interest rate
- mortality rate
- failure rate
- rate limiting
Translations
amount measured in relation to another amount
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Verb
to rate (third-person singular simple present rates, present participle rating, simple past and past participle rated)
- (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- She is rated fourth in the country.
- (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- They rate his talents highly.
- (transitive) To consider or regard.
- He rated this book brilliant.
- (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
- The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
- 1955, Rex Stout, "When a Man Murders...", in Three Witnesses, October 1994 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553249592, page 101:
- Only two assistant district attorneys rate corner offices, and Mandelbaum wasn't one of them.
- (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
- (transitive) (chiefly (UK)) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- (transitive) (informal) To like; to think highly of.
- The customers don't rate the new burgers.
- (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
- She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
- He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
- (intransitive) To have value or standing.
- This last performance of her's didn't rate very high with the judges.
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