rate
率,费率,速率,税率
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- : the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation: a high rate of interest on loans.
- : a certain quantity or amount of one thing considered in relation to a unit of another thing and used as a standard or measure: at the rate of 60 miles an hour.
- : a fixed charge per unit of quantity: a rate of 10 cents a pound.
- : price; cost: to cut rates on all home furnishings.
- : degree of speed, progress, etc.: to work at a rapid rate.
- : degree or comparative extent of action or procedure:the rate of increase in work output.
- : relative condition or quality; grade, class, or sort.
- : assigned position in any of a series of graded classes; rating.
- : Insurance. the premium charge per unit of insurance.
- : a charge by a common carrier for transportation, sometimes including certain services involved in rendering such transportation.
- : a wage paid on a specified time basis: a salary figured on an hourly rate.
- : a charge or price established in accordance with a scale or standard: hotel rates based on length of stay.
- : Horology. the relative adherence of a timepiece to perfect timekeeping, measured in terms of the amount of time gained or lost within a certain period.
- : Usually rates. British. a tax on property for some local purpose.any tax assessed and paid to a local government, as any city tax or district tax.
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rat·ed, rat·ing.
- : to estimate the value or worth of; appraise: to rate a student's class performance.
- : to esteem, consider, or account: He was rated one of the best writers around.
- : to fix at a certain rate, as of charge or payment.
- : to value for purposes of taxation or the like.
- : to make subject to the payment of a certain rate or tax.
- : to place in a certain rank, class, etc., as a ship or a sailor; give a specific rating to.
- : to be considered or treated as worthy of; merit: an event that doesn't even rate a mention in most histories of the period.
- : to arrange for the conveyance of at a certain rate.
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rat·ed, rat·ing.
- : to have value, standing, etc.: a performance that didn't rate very high in the competition.
- : to have position in a certain class.
- : to rank very high in estimation: The new teacher really rates with our class.
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Examples
If Republican-run Mississippi, with its Covid-19 death rate of 93 per 100,000, was a country, it would be in the top three globally, after San Marino and Peru.
Founders Pledge estimates that a donation to this group would avert CO2 at a rate of $1 per metric ton.
Publishers are broadly seeing upticks in programmatic ads rates over the last two months.
The region will fall to the worst tier of the state’s reopening system if the high rate continues for another week.
San Diego County’s coronavirus case rate is now surging, thanks in part to rising cases at San Diego State University.
Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.
With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.
The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety.
At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.
Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.
In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.
If we turn again in a new direction, it will at any rate not be in the direction of a return to autocratic mediævalism.
Of course he was contemplating the application of a "two year old hickory," as he went on at the rate of two forty.
His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.