rate-cap

/ (ˈreɪtˌkæp) /

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verb -caps, -capping or -capped (tr)

(formerly in Britain) to impose on (a local authority) an upper limit on the level of the rate it may levy

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Derived forms of rate-cap

rate-capping, noun

Words nearby rate-cap

ratchet wheel, rat claw foot, rate, rateable, rate base, rate-cap, rate card, rated load, rateen, ratel, ratemaking

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How to use rate-cap 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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Each CAP, also known as an “orbit,” consists on four aircraft.
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In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.
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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.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
At once cover the mouth of the tube with a filter-paper cap moistened with saturated aqueous solution of silver nitrate (1:1).
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
At any rate his stirring advice and the dispatches he brought roused the military authorities at Meerut into activity.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
With horror she had heard her brother addressed by a disreputable costermonger in a mangy fur cap, as "Old pal."
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
If we turn again in a new direction, it will at any rate not be in the direction of a return to autocratic mediævalism.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock