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church rates

church rates is the plural of church rate.

Meaning of church rate

Noun

church rate (countable and uncountable, plural church rates)

  1. A tax raised by certain English parishes primarily for the maintenance of buildings of the Church of England, now voluntary but formerly levied on all residents regardless of denomination.
    • The abolition of church rate would endanger the existence of tithes, because whatever differences there may be between them in point of law and in point of fact, the difference with regard to conscience is the same.1859, The Present State of the Church Rate Question Exhibited […], page 13

Questions about church rates

What is church rates the plural of?
Church rates is the plural of church rate.

Words near church rates in the dictionary

  1. church planter
  2. church planters
  3. church planting
  4. Church Point
  5. church rate
  6. church rates
  7. church school
  8. church schools
  9. church service
  10. church services
  11. Church Slavic

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