going rate

Examples

• All

• What's the going rate these days?

  Frankie and Johnny (1991)

• First-year pay of $85,000 emerges as the new going rate at the biggest firms.

  Academic text (2009)

• You understand that I can only pay half the going rate?

  Fiction book (1992)

• Get as much per hour on your going rate as you can.

  Blog text (1)

• Just give me the going rate, what's out there right now.

  The Iced Coffee Hour

• And what's the going rate?

  Wonder Woman (2017)

• It's the going rate for judges.

  The Forger (2014)

• Rather, I'd expect they just pay whatever their going rate is for the procedure.

  Blog text (3)

• Second question, what is a fair going rate to pay your trainers that are employees across the board?

• Last we heard, the going rate for commercial, bay-caught halibut is $4 a pound.

Synonyms

R

rate

vsgoing rate

∞ 2.1

The price charged for something often per hour or unit

is the commonly accepted standard amount rather than a formula-based charge

M

market price

vsgoing rate

21 2.5

The price people pay for something like shares or houses when it is bought and sold freely

is the generally accepted standard price rather than only the market transaction

P

pay rate

vsgoing rate

3 3.0

The amount of money a worker gets for each hour or week of work

is the commonly accepted standard amount rather than one specific contracted sum

How Expensive

high-interest

12 4.2

premium

74 4.3

going rate

16 3.5

low-interest

• Specialized

33 3.4

for a bargain price

1 2.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology