hurdle rate

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noun

finance the rate of return that a proposed project must provide if it is to be worth considering: usually calculated as the cost of the capital involved adjusted by a risk factor

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Words nearby hurdle rate

Hurban, hurcheon, Hurd, hurdies, hurdle, hurdle rate, hurds, hurdy-gurdy, hurl, Hurler syndrome, hurley

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How to use hurdle rate in a sentence

Historically the reelection rate for members of Congress is in the area of 95 percent.
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With a mortality rate of 70 percent, the more cases that arise, the deadlier this epidemic becomes.
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The accident rate in Asia has marred what was in 2014 a banner year for aviation safety.
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At any rate, policy can enforce equal rights and foster equal opportunity.
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Once I got over that hurdle, it was as if a huge weight had lifted and I was not scared anymore.
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In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
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At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.
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If we turn again in a new direction, it will at any rate not be in the direction of a return to autocratic mediævalism.
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Of course he was contemplating the application of a "two year old hickory," as he went on at the rate of two forty.
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His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.
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