rates
/ɹeɪts/
rates is the plural of rate.
rates is the abbreviation of interest rates.
rates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of rate.
Meaning of rate
Noun
rate (countable and uncountable, plural rates)
- The worth of something; value.
- 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...
- The proportional relationship between one amount, value etc. and another.
- At the height of his powers, he was producing pictures at the rate of four a year.
- Speed.
- The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
- The price of (an individual) thing; cost.
- He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.
- A set price or charge for all examples of a given case, commodity, service etc.
- Postal rates here are low.
Noun
rates pl (plural only)
- Taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
Words formed from rates
Phrases with rates
- bit rates
- key rates
- run rates
- sed rates
- tax rates
- bank rates
- base rates
- book rates
- burn rates
- call rates
- data rates
- flat rates
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- flow rates
- hash rates
- mill rates
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- over rates
- poor rates
- rack rates
- roll rates
- time rates
- zero rates
- birth rates
- churn rates
- climb rates
- clock rates
- crime rates
- death rates
- fifth rates
- first rates
- frame rates
- going rates
- heart rates
- lapse rates
- piece rates
- sixth rates
- third rates
- asking rates
- bounce rates
- church rates
- cyclic rates
- fourth rates
- markup rates
- mates' rates
- policy rates
- second rates
- shrink rates
- strain rates
- strike rates
- teaser rates
- wheeze rates
- book of rates
- economy rates
- failure rates
- Lombard rates
- Nyquist rates
- penalty rates
- postage rates
- refresh rates
- accident rates
- books of rates
- discount rates
- exchange rates
- fatality rates
- floating rates
- interest rates
- rates of climb
- rates of speed
- transfer rates
- air kerma rates
- clearance rates
- excursion rates
- fertility rates
- metabolic rates
- rates of return
- call money rates
- conversion rates
- percentage rates
- positivity rates
- red circle rates
- blue circle rates
- crude birth rates
- crude death rates
- rates of exchange
- rates of interest
- respiratory rates
- time-of-use rates
- utilization rates
- key interest rates
- required run rates
- unemployment rates
- case fatality rates
- click-through rates
- data transfer rates
- adiabatic lapse rates
- basal metabolic rates
- policy interest rates
- zenithal hourly rates
- age standardized rates
- infant mortality rates
- natural increase rates
- basic reproduction rates
- basic reproductive rates
- capacity utilization rates
- erythrocyte sedimentation rates
Words that rhyme with rates
Questions about rates
- What does rates mean?
- Rates means taxes, usually on property, levied by local government.
- What is rates the plural of?
- Rates is the plural of rate.
- What part of speech is rates?
- Rates is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rates?
- Rates is pronounced /ɹeɪts/.
Words near rates in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rates (page history and authors); rate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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