rate
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2.1
- noun
- /reɪt/
- The school aims to improve its graduation rate by providing more resources to students.
- heart rate
- unemployment rate
- growth rate
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Watch on YouTubeIf it's less than the mutation rate, we flip a bit.
- If it's less than the mutation rate, we flip a bit.
- If we could measure her breath rate or her respiration,
- It all goes to the the failure rate of films.
- Number three, you can increase your rate of cellular repair.
- Since that happened, the overdose rate, death rate has doubled.
- You know, the, the hit rate is, is not that high.
- Men had a slightly higher rate of diarrhea than women.
- Well, power is the rate of expending energy.
- They just go up at a slower level or slower rate than previously.
- You know, just make sure your your rate of innovation is fast.
- And so that curve, that rate of emission is totally fixed.
- So we're looking for the rate of this.
Examples
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The unemployment rate has decreased significantly over the past year.
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Are you willing to tell me your success rate roughly on the show?
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So we're looking for the rate of this.
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Investors now believe that rates will stay higher for longer.
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The mortgage rates are at nine percent.
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Pretty high mortality rate in the old business.
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Recent data from surveys of immigrants suggest that the rate may have risen in recent years.
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Ultimately, the reduction of discipline referral rates will allow at-risk students to achieve academic success.
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Experts predict that the interest rate will rise again before the end of the year.
Synonyms
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1.0
How fast someone or something moves
472
2.0
How fast someone or something moves
414
3.0
How often something happens over time
68
3.4
How fast music or an activity happens
34
2.5
A speed that is quicker than usual for a task or activity
9
3.6
The amount of liquid or gas that passes a point in one minute
6
4.6
Very fast movement, action, or change
2
3.7
How much liquid passes a point in a given time
1
3.0
Number of events that happen in one minute
A number that shows how many events happen in one minute
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
330
2.3
The extra money you pay when you borrow or receive when you save each year
- Specialized
121
3.4
The percentage of people looking for work who do not have a job
- Specialized
32
3.8
The number of people who die in a group each year per 1,000 people
29
3.2
The value of one country's money when you change it for another country's money
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27
2.7
The number of people who die in a population each year shown per 1,000 people
- Specialized
23
3.7
The percent that shows how much prices for things and services rise over time
- Specialized
7
3.7
Number of babies who die before their first birthday per 1,000 live births
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4
3.3
The number of breaths a person takes each minute used to check health
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3
3.4
The speed at which digital information moves through a connection, measured in bits per second
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2
4.1
The number of bits sent or processed each second in audio and video files
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2
5.6
A blood test that shows how fast red blood cells settle to check for inflammation
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1
3.8
The value at which one country's money can buy another country's money
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1
4.2
The lowest interest rate banks charge to their best business customers
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1
4.9
How fast the body uses energy while resting to keep breathing and stay warm
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1
5.4
A system where a government keeps a country's money at a set value, often linked to another currency or gold
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1
4.6
The interest rate that a country's central bank sets for loans to commercial banks
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3.7
A high quality school or university training that gives strong knowledge and skills
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1
4.6
The number of times per second a device measures a sound to make a digital file
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1
5.2
A system where a currency's value changes because of buying and selling in the market, not set by the government
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1
7.1
A faster than normal fall of red blood cells in a blood test that shows inflammation in the body
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1
6.3
A test that measures how fast red blood cells sink in a tube to show infection or disease
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1
5.1
The percentage by which property or equipment loses value over a period for accounting
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1
5.3
The price of one currency that goes up and down with market buying and selling
- Specialized
1
5.3
A measure of how quickly things like cars or machines lose value over time, often used for tax
- Specialized
1
7.0
A system that fixes a country's money value to another country's money
- Formal
1
6.0
Independent United States agency that recommends prices for mail services
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Etymology
Rate comes from an old idea of a 'calculation' and is related to ratio, which also means a measured relation. So a rate shows how fast or how often something happens in relation to time or amount.