RATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rates mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RATES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A local tax on property (usually used in the plural)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rates"):

poor rates (a local tax for the relief of the poor)

 Context examples 

Risk of hematopoietic cell transplant relapse rates per patient year with p value higher than 0.52.

(Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Relapse High Risk Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

Samoan vaccination rates dropped in 2018 after two small children died from a faulty vaccine.

(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)

Risk of hematopoietic cell transplant relapse rates per patient year with p value between 0.00 and 0.24.

(Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Relapse Low Risk Rate, NCI Thesaurus)

The response rates may be lower than for susceptible isolates.

(Antimicrobial Intermediate Susceptibility Result, NCI Thesaurus)

MistNet also allows researchers to estimate flying velocity and traffic rates of migrating birds.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

For all three groups, men and those over the age of 65 had higher suicide rates than women and people 10-24 years of age.

(Emergency department study reveals patterns of patients at increased risk for suicide, National Institutes of Health)

As tumor cells have a higher rate of proliferation than normal cells, these cancer cells have increased rates of protein synthesis and thus an increased demand for amino acids.

(Fluorine F 18-labeled S-(3-Fluoropropyl)homocysteine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Thicker tumors are linked with lower survival rates.

(Breslow depth, NCI Dictionary)

Children grow and mature at very different rates.

(Child Development, NIH)

A property of tissues such that a substance shows variable rates of diffusion in different spatial dimensions.

(Diffusion Anisotropy, NCI Thesaurus)