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RATEABILITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rateability mean?
• RATEABILITY (noun)
The noun RATEABILITY has 1 sense:
1. the state of being liable to assessment or taxation
Familiarity information: RATEABILITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being liable to assessment or taxation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
ratability; rateability
Hypernyms ("rateability" is a kind of...):
liability (the state of being legally obliged and responsible)
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)
Derivation:
rateable (liable to payment of locally assessed property taxes)
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