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at no rate

at no rate prepositional phrase: not at all; by no means.

Prepositional phrase

at no rate

  1. (dialectal) Not at all; by no means.
  2. (Ireland, dialectal) At a great rate; at high speed.
    • “Well, away they wint tattherin’ along the road, makin’ the fire fly out o’ the stones at no rate.”1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 520

Questions about at no rate

What does at no rate mean?
At no rate means not at all; by no means.
What part of speech is at no rate?
At no rate is a prepositional phrase.

Words near at no rate in the dictionary

  1. at long last
  2. at loose ends
  3. at minimum
  4. at most
  5. at night
  6. at no rate
  7. at no time
  8. at odd times
  9. at odds
  10. at once
  11. at one

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