crime rate
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- noun
- /kraɪm reɪt/
- Specialized
:
tasa de criminalidad
- If you look at what happened in New York, the crime rate went way down, like way down.
- high crime rate
- violent crime rate
- rising crime rates
And they announced that the crime rates had gone down this enormous amount.
- And they announced that the crime rates had gone down this enormous amount.
- OK, so when you go there, it's the the crime rate is through the roof for a start.
- And in in those years, the crime rate has dropped precipitously the entire time.
- Food tastes better in cities where the crime rate is higher.
- How much does that affect the crime rate?
- In fact, we already know that poor areas have double the violent crime rate compared to non poor areas.
- We studied the best data, and in fact, the impact that incarceration has on reducing the crime rate is quite marginal.
- We're living in it like the crime rates dipping.
- Worst, worst, worst crime rate in history.
- What we call gentrification is really just a synonym for the crime rate in a formerly high crime neighborhood going down.
- You know, if you're a Hollywood actor, you don't need to worry about the true causes of the sort of crime rates in in, in black neighborhoods.
- You know, if you're a Hollywood actor, you don't need to worry about the true causes of the sort of, you know, crime rates in in in black neighborhoods.
- And then you do what take take that federal funding just to attempt to to lower the crime rate.
Examples
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Most recently, investor confidence in Jamaica has been soured by the crime rate, which has required escalating expenditures on security.
Academic text (1998) -
The fall in the American crime rate is even more impressive when compared with the rest of the world.
Academic text (2007) -
"Tell me, has the crime rate really gone up in this country, as we are lead to believe?"
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But here in Florida we're going to take a stand against the crime rate.
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In fact, the campus crime rate is far lower than the national crime rate.
Academic text (2013) -
The crime rate is close to our zero tolerance goal.
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It has the highest crime rate in Sector 13.
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Don't forget your society has a very high crime rate compared to other Western countries.
Blog text (5) -
New York's crime rates continue to decline even as they have been rising in other big cities.
Academic text (2002) -
The city reported that the crime rate has decreased significantly over the past five years.
Antonyms
How High
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the number of crimes per population' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'crime' (unlawful acts) with 'rate' (a measured frequency), so a learner who knows both words can infer the compound meaning. This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic way to express frequency or proportion and follows standard English compounding patterns, making it accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Crime rate comes from the simple idea of crime (bad acts) and rate (a number that shows 'how often' something happens). People count how many crimes happen 'per 1,000 people' in a place, so the term means the number that shows whether crime is high or low in a community.