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rate 1. a. a price or charge with reference to a standard or scale b. (as modifier): a rate card 2. a charge made per unit for a commodity, service, etc. 3. a wage calculated against a unit of time rate [rāt] (science and technology) The amount of change of some quantity during a time interval divided by the length of the time interval. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| First, therefore, let usury in general, be reduced to five in the hundred; and let that rate be proclaimed, to be free and current; and let the state shut itself out, to take any penalty for the same. Jaggers, bending forward to look at the ground, and then throwing his head back to look at the ceiling, "what do you suppose you are living at the rate of? By this time we had got so far out of the run of the current that we kept steerage way even at our necessarily gentle rate of rowing, and I could keep her steady for the goal. |
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