Rate

/ɹeɪt/ · noun

Meaning

(obsolete) The worth of something; value..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) The worth of something; value.
2. The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
3. Speed.
4. The relative speed of change or progress.
5. The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
6. A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
7. A wage calculated in relation to a unit of time.
8. Any of various taxes, especially those levied by a local authority.

Example Sentences

There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education.

At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.

Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.

Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough.

The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.

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• rates
• rating
• rated

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