poor rate
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The system is bad, as it creates more claimants on your poor rate.
From A Danish Parsonage by Vicary, John Fulford
List of persons assessed for poor rate in Southwark, April 6, 1609, in which Shakespeare’s name appears.
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
The poor rate is no longer made at the Vestry; the church rate is a thing of the past; and what is then left?
From The Hills and the Vale by Jefferies, Richard
The poor rate was undoubtedly the heaviest tax borne by our ancestors in those days.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The administration of the poor rate, which consisted of officials of the respective parishes, is therefore reformed.
From Selected Essays by Stenning, H. J.
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