rates

Speech parts

1. rates - Noun

2. rates - Verb

Meaning

a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

levy rate standard term value speed cost charge tax Price ratio rank velocity percentage duty

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Antonyms

brown-noses abandons compliments butters up charms cold-shoulders

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Hypernyms

tax taxation revenue enhancement

Hyponyms

poor rates

Phrases with the word

declining birth rates conversion rates morbidity rates case fatality rates fatality rates birth rates

Anagrams

arest aster earst stare tarse tears teras Satre Aerts arste reast Sater setar stear taser Tesar tares Tresa

Examples

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments. Isaac Bashevis Singer

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education. Gary Becker

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. William Stanley Jevons

Outside of the killings, D. C. has one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Marion Barry

Harry Dresden: Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence. Jim Butcher

One is rated by others as he rates himself. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

ratepayers group ratepaying rater rates of change rates of dark respiration rates of death