Definitions for ratepayer

ratepayer rate·pay·er

Spelling: [reyt-pey-er]
IPA: /ˈreɪtˌpeɪ ər/

Ratepayer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in ratepayer (aaeeprrty).

Definitions for ratepayer

noun

  1. a person who pays a regular charge for the use of a public utility, as gas or electricity, usually based on the quantity consumed.
  2. British. a person who pays rates; a taxpayer of the local government.

Origin of ratepayer

First recorded in 1835-45; rate1 + payer

Examples for ratepayer

If the City Council improves a street, at the cost of the ratepayer, the landlord raises his rent.

We find that a ratepayer issued a placard, giving a copy of the Acts of 37, Geo.

"But surely cookery is taught in the schools," pleaded the ratepayer.

In fact, speaking as a ratepayer, I think the police ought to have done it before.

And his person, too, had the rotundity which the ratepayer demands.

But the fact remains, and it carries with it a great and unexpected relief to the Irish ratepayer.

For that reason an English municipal taxpayer is called a ratepayer.

And as a ratepayer, I have assisted to support him ever since!

Enter Injured, but Beauteous, ratepayer, wringing her hands.

The central ideas of modern municipalism are the raising of loans and the sweating of the ratepayer.

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