zero-rate
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of zero-rate
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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It earns revenue from card interest payments when customers carry loan balances beyond an initial zero-rate period, as well as from interchange and other fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
"The zero-rate environment of the past decade induced businesses to issue straight debt almost at will," Reddy said.
From Reuters ● Feb. 17, 2023
In a zero-rate environment, however, there’s very little punishment for having a tough year and needing to access the credit markets.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
Nilay Patel also calls out how AT&T’s supposed mechanism for letting anybody zero-rate is only used by...
From The Verge ● Jun. 3, 2020
We are delighted that the government has announced plans to #AxeTheReadingTax and zero-rate VAT on digital books and journals.
From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2020
The new finance bill replaces the zero-rated tax provision on essential commodities with tax-exempt status.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2025
Former FCC officials say the new limits on zero-rated data plans are based on policy analysis that the federal agency undertook in 2016.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2018
Its growth has been fuelled by the fact that it is zero-rated by some of the country’s mobile phone operators, meaning people don’t have to pay data charges to use it.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2018
Despite, or perhaps because of, the popularity of zero-rated services, net neutrality is barely on the country’s radar.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2017
"Zero-rating may provide an unfair advantage to the provider of the content that is zero-rated, compared to other content providers or potential new entrants," staffers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation wrote in a February post.
From US News ● Jul. 15, 2016
He said the government had determined that traders do not pass the zero-rating benefit to consumers, while some make "fictitious and fake" claims for refunds.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2025
The law also takes an interesting approach to zero-rating.
From The Verge ● Sep. 30, 2018
Wheeler’s rules left room for both paid peering and zero-rating deals, and it was clear the FCC would step in if carriers started doing anything too predatory.
From The Verge ● Jun. 11, 2018
In the U.S., zero-rating plans include T-Mobile’s Binge On, which offers subscribers the opportunity to watch streaming content without it counting toward their data plan—but the video quality is reduced.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2017
One type of service that could proliferate in the new regime is zero-rating deals, where specific websites or services are exempted from a mobile carrier’s data caps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2017
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