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WATER-RATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water-rate mean?
• WATER-RATE (noun)
The noun WATER-RATE has 1 sense:
1. rate per quarter for water from a public supply
Familiarity information: WATER-RATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rate per quarter for water from a public supply
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("water-rate" is a kind of...):
charge (the price charged for some article or service)
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)
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