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rate
> noun
1 [C] a measurement of the speed at which sth happens: Most people walk at an average rate of 5 kilometres an hour. * The number of reported crimes is increasing at an alarming rate. * Figures published today show another fall in the rate of inflation. * At the rate you work, you’ll never finish!
2 [C] a measurement of the number of times sth happens or exists during a particular period: Local businesses are closing at a / the rate of three a year. * a high / low / rising rate of unemployment * the annual crime / divorce rate * His pulse rate dropped suddenly. * a high success / failure rate—see also birth rate, death rate
3 [C] a fixed amount of money that is charged or paid for sth: advertising / insurance / postal, etc. rates * a low / high hourly rate of pay * We offer special reduced rates for students. * a fixed-rate mortgage (= one in which the amount of money paid back each month is fixed for a particular period) * the basic rate of tax (= the lowest amount that is paid by everyone) * exchange / interest rates * rates of exchange / interest—see also base rate, flat rate, rack rate
4 rates [pl.] (in Britain) a tax paid by businesses to a local authority for land and buildings that they use and in the past also paid by anyone who owned a house—see also first-rate, second-rate, third-rate
DWDS:
Rate, die; -, -n
1. in regelmäßigen Zeitabschnitten zu zahlender Teilbetrag einer Gesamtsumme: eine erste, letzte, monatliche, kleine R.; die dritte R. für den Fernseher wurde am 1. März fällig; die Raten pünktlich zahlen, einhalten, salopp abstottern⌉; Möbel auf Raten kaufen; etw. in regelmäßigen Raten abzahlen, bezahlen; er war, blieb mit zwei Raten im Rückstand
2. in Prozenten ausgedrücktes Verhältnis einer Größe zu einer anderen Größe, auf die sie bezogen wird: die steigende R. der Produktivität, Geburten; die sinkende R. der Sterblichkeit |
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