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What does rate mean?
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rate Noun

— Speed. A rate is how fast something happens. Something can go at a fast rate or a slow rate. The rate of water pouring out of the lake into the river is enough to make the lake empty in a year if it doesn't rain. Her heart rate is 70 beats every minute. If we keep writing pages at this rate we might have 2000 Simple English Wiktionary words by August 4.

rate Verb

— Someone rates something when they decide how much its value is (how much it's worth). I rate this book at six out of ten: it was not the best book.

rate

— noun a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit they traveled at a rate of 55 miles per hour the rate of change was faster than expected — noun amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5 — verb (= rank) assign a rank or rating to how would you rank these students? The restaurant is rated highly in the food guide — verb be worthy of or have a certain rating This bond rates highly — verb (= value) estimate the value of How would you rate his chances to become President? Gold was rated highly among the Romans — noun (= pace) the relative speed of progress or change he lived at a fast pace he works at a great rate the pace of events accelerated — noun a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure the literacy rate the retention rate the dropout rate

Synonyms rate synonyms

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rate English » English

estimate appraise ratio proportion speed value price grade evaluate velocity tariff assess gauge rank judge charge pace degree assay fare cost percentage class appreciate tempo prize order like level esteem valuation time think well of think highly of tax standard scold range quotation quota portion merit measure love frequency figure fee fancy enjoy duty

Topics rate topics

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Language and thought Think Learn

Evaluate, test
Work and occupation Finance Financial transaction

Price
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Move quickly

  • What words refer to how fast something is moving?
    speed pace rate
States

Quantity

Conjugation rate conjugation

How do you conjugate rate?

rate · verb

Examples rate examples

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Simple sentences

We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second.
Rate of suffering experienced on this planet is enormous.
At any rate, they're sick.
At this rate, we're not likely to be done before the end of the week.
How much is the monthly rate?
I'd like to know the exact exchange rate for yen.
They would have gotten a better exchange rate if they had gone to a bank.
At any rate, I did my duty.
At any rate, I will do my best.
I will try to solve the problem at any rate.
At any rate, the program was a success.
It is at best a second-rate hotel.
The old woman lends money at the rate of three percent.
The train is traveling at the rate of 50 miles an hour.
It is well known that the city has a high crime rate.
We are getting on first-rate.
At any rate, I can go out when it stops raining.
The rate of exchange is 145 yen to the dollar.
We look back on days gone by, if not always with affections, at any rate with a kind of wistfulness.
What is the exchange rate for dollars now?
At any rate, I hope you can come.
At any rate, I must finish this work by tomorrow.
At any rate, we have to finish this chapter before we can start on the next.

Movie subtitles

At this rate, the loyalty of us, the Purists, will be questioned.
At any rate, it's a fact that Sir Jeremiah is guilty.
At this rate..
The room rate would be free.
Heart rate's skyrocketing.
His heart rate's through the roof.
First-rate.
At the rate you two are going we'll have to leave the country to save our faces.
I don't know how I rate that, Gallagher.
Is the usual rate higher?
Well, we stand a first-rate chance of having him withdraw his financial support. Now, did you gather that?
You rate yourself highly, my child.
How will you get to New York at this rate?
At the rate he's going, he's probably crossed two state lines by this time.
Did you hear me? With a special rate for friends.
At this rate, we won't pick up any audio or video.
Our house. 009, at this rate.
At this rate.
I've analyzed his heart rate and respiration.
At any rate, get out of Chicago.
At this rate, we'll have to leave the country to save our faces.
I don't know how I rate that.
Kemp's car going over the cliff was another of Charlie Baker's, and his Universal miniature department's efforts. As usual, a first-rate one.
That is, you understand, at the present rate of exchange.
Davidson decides to risk a lot of money. Lubitsch hires prominent young Berlin actors such as Emil Jannings and Harry Liedke with a rate of up to 35 marks per day.
How does he rate a private breeze?
At any rate, he showed up for the wedding.
Uh, at any rate, I.
Not first-rate.
How do you expect to get to New York at the rate you're going?
She wrings every last penny out of second-rate geishas like us.
At any rate, gentlemen, a charming, exquisite woman.
He left when the rate dropped.

News and current affairs

Gold prices are extremely sensitive to global interest-rate movements.
The higher the growth rate, the more revenues the government will collect without raising tax rates; and higher revenues enable smaller deficits.
Only then will America improve its competitiveness enough to allow the government to reduce both private and public debt to sustainable levels while maintaining a respectable growth rate.
A global externality can best be dealt with by a globally agreed tax rate.
In August, the currency's exchange-rate regime was loosened slightly.
One such implication is that developing countries will have to substitute real industrial policies for those that operate through the exchange rate.
Spreads between the interest rate at which America's government could borrow and the interest rates at which America's corporations could borrow widened.
And, with tighter labor-force attachment on the part of those who have jobs, the unemployment rate thereafter would likely be about 0.1 percentage points lower in the indefinite future.
The world-wide dilemma over exchange rate management is that when market pressure is not high necessary changes no longer seem so urgent.
So devaluation is unlikely to be effective in boosting the overall rate of growth.
If the US dollar weakens in relation with other major currencies, China may not need to adjust RMB's nominal rate for quite a while.
Moreover, fiscal and sovereign-debt strains are becoming worse as interest-rate spreads for Spain and Italy have returned to their unsustainable peak levels.
Heat waves, droughts, floods, forest fires, retreating glaciers, polluted rivers, and extreme storms buffet the planet at a dramatically rising rate, owing to human activities.
Interest-rate hikes may be coming sooner rather than later, which is why Berlusconi and French President Jacques Chirac are talking up interest-rate cuts now.
Peter Kenen argued in the late 1960's that without exchange-rate movements as a shock absorber, a currency union requires fiscal transfers as a way to share risk.
In order to gain the breathing space necessary for the reform process to be effective, the Greek government could just announce a simple rescheduling: the due date of all existing public debt is extended by five years at an unchanged interest rate.
This is a recipe for continuing political problems, as the Greeks would always consider the interest rate too high, while Germany would consider it too low (at least relative to market rates).
America's appallingly low savings rate.
At the current rate, Afghanistan's old growth forest could vanish within a decade.
A country with a flexible currency can achieve that by allowing the exchange rate to depreciate.
Any higher rate would cause Greek prices to rise more rapidly than those of its eurozone trading partners.
Moreover, the renminbi remains non-convertible for most capital transactions, China's financial markets are primitive, and trading margins for the exchange rate are still set daily by the monetary authorities.
Last but not the least as a reason not to devalue, China is struggling with deflation and a slowdown in the country's growth rate.

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