rating

Noun

rating (plural ratings)

1. A position on a scale.
2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
   • They have a poor credit rating.
   • A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies. […] But through its months-long investigation of the BBB, CNNMoney found that this...2015 September 30, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, “How the Better Business Bureau rakes in millions”, in CNN Business
3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
   • He has a high chess rating.
4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
   • A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest
5. A seaman in a warship.
   • Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire
6. (UK) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
   • In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.
   • Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149