Synonyms to the word rate

What is another word for Rate?

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1. grade (10)
2. order (13)
3. place (20)
4. range (12)
5. value (12)
6. percentage (7)
7. ratio (4)
8. scale (10)
9. proportion (8)
10. degree (6)
11. standard (11)
12. charge (10)

1       n-count   The rate at which something happens is the speed with which it happens.  
with supp  
The rate at which hair grows can be agonisingly slow…, The world’s tropical forests are disappearing at an even faster rate than experts had thought.     

2       n-count   The rate at which something happens is the number of times it happens over a period of time.  
with supp  
New diet books appear at a rate of nearly one a week…, His heart rate was 30 beats per minute slower…     

3       n-count   A rate is the amount of money that is charged for goods or services.  
with supp  
Calls cost 36p per minute cheap rate and 48p at all other times., …specially reduced rates for travellers using Gatwick Airport…     
  →
  exchange rate  

4       n-count   The rate of taxation or interest is the amount of tax or interest that needs to be paid. It is expressed as a percentage of the amount that is earned, gained as profit, or borrowed.     (BUSINESS)   with supp  
The government insisted that it would not be panicked into interest rate cuts.     

5       verb   If you rate someone or something as good or bad, you consider them to be good or bad. You can also say that someone or something rates as good or bad.  
no cont  
Of all the men in the survey, they rate themselves the least fun-loving and the most responsible…      V n adj  
Most rated it a hit…      V n n  
We rate him as one of the best…      V n as n/adj  
She rated the course highly…      V n adv  
Reading books does not rate highly among Britons as a leisure activity.      V adv prep  
…the most highly rated player in English football.      V-ed  

6       verb   If you rate someone or something, you think that they are good.  
  (mainly BRIT)  
INFORMAL   It’s flattering to know that other clubs have shown interest and seem to rate me…      V n  

7       v-passive   If someone or something is rated at a particular position or rank, they are calculated or considered to be in that position on a list.  
no cont  
He is generally rated Italy’s No. 3 industrialist…      be V-ed n  
He came here rated 100th on the tennis computer.      be V-ed ord  

8       verb   If you say that someone or something rates a particular reaction, you mean that this is the reaction you consider to be appropriate.  
no cont  
(=merit)  
This is so extraordinary, it rates a medal and a phone call from the President…      V n  

10    You use at any rate to indicate that what you have just said might be incorrect or unclear in some way, and that you are now being more precise.  
♦
at any rate      phrase   PHR with cl  
She modestly suggests that `sex, or at any rate gender, may account for the difference’…     

11    You use at any rate to indicate that the important thing is what you are saying now, and not what was said before.  
♦
at any rate      phrase   PHR with cl  
Well, at any rate, let me thank you for all you did.     

12    If you say that at this rate something bad or extreme will happen, you mean that it will happen if things continue to develop as they have been doing.  
♦
at this rate      phrase   PHR with cl  
At this rate they’d be lucky to get home before eight-thirty or nine.     

1       verb   In Britain, when a local council was rate-capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more efficient.  
usu passive  
Notts County Council is to cut 200 jobs in a bid to escape being rate-capped.      be V-ed  
♦
  rate-capping      n-uncount  
The project is seriously threatened by rate-capping.     

2       n-count   A rate cap is a limit placed by the government on the amount of interest that banks or credit card companies can charge their customers.  
  (AM)