Rate Meaning
/ɹeɪt/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe worth of something; value.
nounThe proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
Sentence Examples
At this rate, we're not likely to be done before the end of the week.
The income tax rate increases in proportion as your salary rises.
Figures published today show another fall in the rate of inflation.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The English teacher will ____ the student essays based on grammar and content.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The central bank raised the interest ____ by half a percentage point to combat rising inflation.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English rate, from Old French rate, from Medieval Latin rata, from Latin prō ratā parte (“according to a fixed part”), from ratus (“fixed”), from rērī (“think, deem, judge, estimate", originally "reckon, calculate”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet."
— c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
"His natural parts were not of the first rate, but he had greatly improved them by a learned education."
— 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
"Negative responses to this program were being received by the office of the National Gay Task Force at the rate of ten to one."
— 1979 December 29, Cindy Stein, “Queers in America's Living Rooms”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 10:
"In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%."
— 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
"Many of the horse could not march at that rate, nor come up soon enough."
— 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The English teacher will ____ the student essays based on grammar and content.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The central bank raised the interest ____ by half a percentage point to combat rising inflation.