POOR RATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poor rates mean? 

• POOR RATES (noun)
  The noun POOR RATES has 1 sense:

1. a local tax for the relief of the poor

  Familiarity information: POOR RATES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POOR RATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A local tax for the relief of the poor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("poor rates" is a kind of...):

rates (a local tax on property (usually used in the plural))

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

The majority of patients present with advanced tumors which have poor rates of curability.

(Gastric Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)