Rates is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RATES in dictionary:

VERB:
• RATE, to estimate the value of
• assign a standard or value to (something) according to a particular scale
• assign a standard, optimal, or limiting rating to (a piece of equipment)
• (in the UK) assess the value of (a property) for the purpose of levying a local tax.
• consider to be of a certain quality or standard
• be regarded in a specified way
• have a high opinion of
• be worthy of; merit
• scold (someone) angrily
PLURAL NOUN:
• (in some countries) a tax on property levied by a local authority
NOUN:
• a measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against another quantity or measure
• the speed with which something moves or happens
• a fixed price paid or charged for something
• the amount of a charge or payment expressed as a percentage of another amount, or as a basis of calculation
• (in the UK) a tax on commercial land and buildings paid to a local authority; (in Northern Ireland and formerly in the UK) a tax levied on private property.
• a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)

Words related to RATES

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Words that contain RATES

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How to use RATES in a sentence

• Hardly any of these were making any money, though the service was poor and the rates were high.
• He also recommends that the rates of postage on printed matter be so revised as to render them more simple and more uniform in their operation upon all classes of printed matter.
• I imagine she understands about hate and love and envy and greed and determination, and other emotions, but not much about rates of wages.
• At these rates, he could not have expected much more.
• The delay however was not lost, inasmuch as it gave an opportunity of finding new rates for the watches, as well as of obtaining a set of lunar observations for the longitude.
• At smaller places farther in the north the rates are much less.
• See under Los Angeles, California, for information on rates.
• And to make this state of things yet more remarkable, there were two courts established for fixing rates.
• In considering that point the somewhat hazardous assertion was ventured upon that the woman rates intellectual attractions in the man higher than he does in her.
• It will say almost anything and publish the rest at advertising rates.
• In the orchestra the range is slightly more extended, the rates being from 33 to 4752.
• Three times before This thing has happened, and if once again These outside operators dare to cut Our rates of profit I shall quit the road And take my money out of this concern.
• High rates on state-owned roads in Europe have been used in lieu of protective duties.
• A new telephone company, entering where a monopoly has held the field, works at once a wonderful betterment in rates, courtesy, and service.
• Under their provisions important improvements have resulted in reduced rates of international postage and enlarged mail facilities with European countries.
• The currency of the country became sound, and the negotiations in the exchanges were carried on at the lowest possible rates.
• It is the true policy of the Government to afford facilities to its citizens to become the owners of small portions of our vast public domain at low and moderate rates.
• These taxes in turn had brought about a great increase in the tariff rates on goods imported from foreign countries.
• Color is nothing more than the result of certain rates of vibrations of light recorded by our senses and interpreted by our minds.
• A portion of a wage table is given here as illustrative of rates, and used as a reference table before the preparation of Mr.
• And such might be the state of things, that rates of duties sufficient for revenue would be insufficient for the purposes of protection and regulating trade.

Similar words containing RATE without suffix s

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