Definitions for rates

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Spelling: [reyt]

IPA: /reɪt/

Rates is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in rates (aerst).

Definitions for rates

noun

1. the amount of a charge or payment with reference to some basis of calculation:
2. a certain quantity or amount of one thing considered in relation to a unit of another thing and used as a standard or measure:
3. a fixed charge per unit of quantity:
4. price; cost:
5. degree of speed, progress, etc.:
6. degree or comparative extent of action or procedure:
7. relative condition or quality; grade, class, or sort.
8. assigned position in any of a series of graded classes; rating.
9. Insurance. the premium charge per unit of insurance.
10. a charge by a common carrier for transportation, sometimes including certain services involved in rendering such transportation.
11. a wage paid on a specified time basis:
12. a charge or price established in accordance with a scale or standard:
13. 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.
14. 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.

Idioms

1. at any rate, in any event; in any case. at least:

verb (used with object)

1. to estimate the value or worth of; appraise:
2. to esteem, consider, or account:
3. to fix at a certain rate, as of charge or payment.
4. to value for purposes of taxation or the like.
5. to make subject to the payment of a certain rate or tax.
6. to place in a certain rank, class, etc., as a ship or a sailor; give a specific rating to.
7. to be considered or treated as worthy of; merit:
8. to arrange for the conveyance of (goods) at a certain rate.

verb (used without object)

1. to have value, standing, etc.:
2. to have position in a certain class.
3. to rank very high in estimation:

verb (used with or without object)

1. to chide vehemently; scold.

Origin of rates

1375-1425; (noun) late Middle English rate monetary value, estimated amount, proportional part Medieval Latin rata Latin (prō) ratā (parte) (according to) an estimated (part), ratā ablative s

Examples for rates

rates are thought to be similar in developed countries around the world.

Hence, if the rates fixed by the law were twenty-five per cent.

Not surprisingly, rates for recovery vary enormously, from as low as three percent to upwards of 75 percent.

Trains are slow, and rates often so high as to be prohibitory.

They endure further torment as rates of rape, domestic violence and early marriage skyrocket in times of crisis.

rates fell in one year from $1.80 to 25 cents per hundred pounds.

Well into the post-2008 recovery, the country suffers from rates of labor participation at a 36 year low.

He's dropped into a soft spot—he rates best in the percentage card.

When these rates and the classification conflict, these rates will govern.

Hepatitis B plays by the same rules, though the rates of transmission are about 10 times more frequent.