Antonyms for rates

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : reyt

Phonetic Transcription : reɪt

Definition of rates

Origin : "estimated value or worth," early 15c., from Old French rate "price, value" and directly from Medieval Latin rata (pars) "fixed (amount)," from Latin rata "fixed, settled," fem. past participle of reri "to reckon, think" (see reason (n.)). Meaning "degree of speed" (prop. ratio between distance and time) is attested from 1650s. Currency exchange sense first recorded 1727. First-rate, second-rate, etc. are 1640s, from British Navy division of ships into six classes based on size and strength. Phrase at any rate originally (1610s) meant "at any cost;" weakened sense of "at least" is attested by 1760.

noun ratio, proportion
noun fee charged for service, privilege, goods
noun speed, pace
verb judge, classify
verb be entitled to

Example sentences :

He's dropped into a soft spot—he rates best in the percentage card.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

Trains are slow, and rates often so high as to be prohibitory.
Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee

Rates fell in one year from $1.80 to 25 cents per hundred pounds.
Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee

Hence, if the rates fixed by the law were twenty-five per cent.
Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee

When these rates and the classification conflict, these rates will govern.
Extract from : « The Railroad Question » by William Larrabee

These rents however are to be taken from the rates in which they are charged, and not from the rents which are actually paid.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

And the folks that come had money, too—they had to have to pay Brown's rates.
Extract from : « Cape Cod Stories » by Joseph C. Lincoln

After all, Dinah, it is not that he holds us more cheaply, but rates himself higher.
Extract from : « Barrington » by Charles James Lever

In the temperate zone there is no regularity in the monthly rates of rainfall.
Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden

Plagues of rates have appeared at Pinsk, and in the British trenches.
Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 » by Various

Synonyms for rates

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