rates

/ reɪts /

plural noun

1. (in some countries) a tax levied on property by a local authority

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

Disordered eating is also linked to higher rates of depression and anxiety, both in the present and in the future.

From The Daily Beast

Girls raised in households with more equitable fathers show lower rates of unwanted sex.

From The Daily Beast

His claim that taxpayers are spending millions of dollars for each detainee rates True.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

The lack of bill buyers in foreign countries who will quote as low rates on dollar as on sterling bills.

From Project Gutenberg

In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.

From Project Gutenberg

I am in favour of no one paying rates unless he has children actually at a Board School.

From Project Gutenberg

To unduly increase rates would diminish traffic and induce competition by road and sea.

From Project Gutenberg

Whenever they did, reductions in the rates, or the provision of p. 209greater facilities, were to restore the balance.

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