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View synonyms for rates

rates

/ reɪts /

plural noun

  1. (in some countries) a tax levied on property by a local authority
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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