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rate 1 |r?t|
noun
1 a measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against some other quantity or measure: the crime rate rose by 26 percent.
• the speed with which something moves, happens, or changes: your heart rate.
2 a fixed price paid or charged for something, esp. goods or services: the basic rate of pay | advertising rates.
• the amount of a charge or payment expressed as a percentage of some other amount, or as a basis of calculation: you'll find our current interest rate very competitive.
• (usu. rates) (in the UK) a tax on land and buildings paid to the local authority by a business, and formerly also by occupants of private property.
verb
1 [ with obj. ] assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale: they were asked to rate their ability at different driving maneuvers | [ with obj. and complement ] : the hotel, rated four star, had no hot water and no sink plugs.
• assign a standard, optimal, or limiting rating to (a piece of equipment): its fuel economy is rated at 25 miles a gallon in the city.
• Brit.assess the value of (a property) for the purpose of levying a local tax.
2 [ with obj. ] consider to be of a certain quality, standard, or rank: he rates the company's stock a “buy.” | [ with obj. and complement ] : the program has been rated a great success.
• [ no obj. ] be regarded in a specified way: Jeff still rates as one of the nicest people I have ever met.
• be worthy of; merit: the ambassador rated a bulletproof car and a police escort.
PHRASES
at any rate whatever happens or may have happened: for the moment, at any rate, he was safe. • used to indicate that one is correcting or clarifying a previous statement or emphasizing a following one: the story, or at any rate, a public version of it, was known and remembered.
at this (or that ) rate used to introduce the prediction of a particular unwelcome eventuality should things continue as they are or if a certain assumption is true: at this rate, I won't have a job to go back to.
ORIGIN late Middle English (expressing a notion of ‘estimated value’): from Old French, from medieval Latin rata (from Latin pro rata parte (or portione)‘according to the proportional share’), from ratus ‘reckoned,’ past participle of reri .
rate 2 |r?t|
verb [ with obj. ] archaic
scold (someone) angrily: he rated the young man soundly for his want of respect.
ORIGIN late Middle English: of unknown origin.