Rate \Rate\ (r[=a]t), v. t. & i. [Perh. fr. E. rate, v. t., to value at a certain rate, to estimate, but more prob. fr. Sw. rata to find fault, to blame, to despise, to hold cheap; cf. Icel. hrat refuse, hrati rubbish.] To chide with vehemence; to scold; to censure violently; to berate. --Spenser. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Conscience is a check to beginners in sin, reclaiming them from it, and rating them for it. --Barrow.
Rate \Rate\, n. [OF., fr. L. rata (sc. pars), fr. ratus reckoned, fixed by calculation, p. p. of reri to reckon, to calculate. Cf. {Reason}.] 1. Established portion or measure; fixed allowance.
The one right feeble through the evil rate Of food which in her duress she had found. --Spenser.
2. That which is established as a measure or criterion; degree; standard; rank; proportion; ratio; as, a slow rate of movement; rate of interest is the ratio of the interest to the principal, per annum.
Heretofore the rate and standard of wit was different from what it is nowadays. --South.
In this did his holiness and godliness appear above the rate and pitch of other men's, in that he was so . . . merciful. --Calamy.
Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough. --Clarendon.
3. Valuation; price fixed with relation to a standard; cost; charge; as, high or low rates of transportation.
They come at dear rates from Japan. --Locke.
4. A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.
5. Order; arrangement. [Obs.]
Thus sat they all around in seemly rate. --Spenser.
6. Ratification; approval. [R.] --Chapman.
7. (Horol.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time; as, daily rate; hourly rate; etc.
8. (Naut.) (a) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc.; as, first rate, second rate, etc. (b) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc.
Rate \Rate\, v. i. 1. To be set or considered in a class; to have rank; as, the ship rates as a ship of the line.
2. To make an estimate.
Rate \Rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Rated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Rating}.] 1. To set a certain estimate on; to value at a certain price or degree.
To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. --South.
You seem not high enough your joys to rate. --Dryden.
2. To assess for the payment of a rate or tax.
3. To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
4. To ratify. [Obs.] ``To rate the truce.'' --Chapman.
{To rate a chronometer}, to ascertain the exact rate of its gain or loss as compared with true time, so as to make an allowance or computation dependent thereon.
Syn: To value; appraise; estimate; reckon.
The local economy is diversifying, tourism and trade are up and the jobless rate was a relatively low 4.1 percent as of August.
But AT&T now is under a regulatory scheme that controls its prices within a prescribed range of "caps" tied to the rate of inflation, not its profits.
In one commercial, it focuses on Mazda's "telemetry" center, where scientists monitor a driver's pulse rate and heartbeat, among other vital signs, to ascertain how driving a Mazda feels.
As a consequence, the share prices of prime rate funds don't vary when interest rates change.
Nearly 70 per cent did not know the rate charged on their card, and only 15 per cent guessed in the correct range of 22-25 per cent. The survey found that around 37 per cent of card holders do not pay off their balance in full each month.
He said the rate of implementation would depend on the ANC's adherence to its promise to end all violence.
Its trade-weighted effective exchange rate is higher than during the second half of 1991 and early 1992.
That is surely not going to happen again, because governments have abandoned the gold peg for their currencies and have generally established targets for the minimum as well as the maximum annual growth rate of the money supply.
If the utility commission follows its normal schedule for public hearings, the rate change, if granted, would go into effect next January.
This practice is known in the industry as 'skin-to-skin' working. The report said the roof fall was caused by rock movement 'probably' triggered by 'the relatively high rate of advance of the working in the roadway'.
But he added: 'If there is no more easing in the repo rate within two weeks, the pressure on the system will return.
Dollar figures for the 1989 and 1988 periods were converted from British pounds at the Sept. 30 rate of $1.615 to the pound.
Among manufacturers, productivity grew at a 3.8% rate in the third quarter and a 3.7% rate in the second, after falling in the first quarter of 1991 and the last quarter of 1990.
Among manufacturers, productivity grew at a 3.8% rate in the third quarter and a 3.7% rate in the second, after falling in the first quarter of 1991 and the last quarter of 1990.
"If you look at the composition of the work force, you have to conclude the unemployment rate can go lower now than would have been safe 10 years ago," says George Perry, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
The capital gains plan approved Thursday would cut the current maximum rate of 33 percent to 19.6 percent for 27 months. Thereafter, the rate would rise to 28 percent but any gains would be taxed only on the amount exceeding the annual inflation rate.
The capital gains plan approved Thursday would cut the current maximum rate of 33 percent to 19.6 percent for 27 months. Thereafter, the rate would rise to 28 percent but any gains would be taxed only on the amount exceeding the annual inflation rate.
The capital gains plan approved Thursday would cut the current maximum rate of 33 percent to 19.6 percent for 27 months. Thereafter, the rate would rise to 28 percent but any gains would be taxed only on the amount exceeding the annual inflation rate.
It is in this sense that the UK was seen as uncompetitive at the 1990-92 ERM exchange rate. Uncompetitiveness here means an overvalued exchange rate.
It is in this sense that the UK was seen as uncompetitive at the 1990-92 ERM exchange rate. Uncompetitiveness here means an overvalued exchange rate.
Inflation is expected to average nearly 5%, up from 4.3% in 1990, and the average jobless rate is seen climbing to 6.7% from 6.2%.
Under current troop-stationing agreements with East Germany, the Soviet Union buys East German marks in exchange for so-called transfer rubles at a preferential rate.
Right now we subsidise many items, for example refrigerators and televisions, by allowing them to be imported at the official rate of exchange.
The currency held up well, with the Australian dollar firming to a high of USDollars 0.6845 before moving back to USDollars 0.6835. That the interest rate cut was widely expected was due mainly to the economic data released last week.
Sales in the sluggish Northeast market, which had risen 9.3 percent in April, fell back 5.6 percent in May to 84,000 units at an annual rate.
REVENUE AGENTS, who do the IRS's complex audits, left it at a rate of 6.5% a year, says a study by the General Accounting Office.
Under terms of the agreement, most East Germans will be able to convert 4,000 East German marks of savings into West German marks at a 1-to-1 exchange rate.
Paying out bonuses requires a high rate of return.
The Fed appears to be allowing a key short-term rate to rise in a bid to restrain inflation.