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mates' rates

mates' rates noun: discounted prices offered to friends.

Noun

mates' rates

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, in plural, informal) Discounted prices offered to friends.
    • I looked at him quizzically. ‘It's Rose's place. She says pop in anytime for a hairdo. Mates' rates.’ I must have looked wary because he added, ‘She's good.’ I nodded politely.2014, Jonathan Harvey, The Girl Who Just Appeared, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 94

Questions about mates' rates

What does mates' rates mean?
Mates' rates means discounted prices offered to friends.
What part of speech is mates' rates?
Mates' rates is a noun.

Words near mates' rates in the dictionary

  1. Materns
  2. maters
  3. materteral
  4. materterine
  5. mates
  6. mates' rates
  7. Mateses
  8. mateship
  9. mateships
  10. MATESOL
  11. MATESOLs

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