noun
a quantity or amount considered in relation to or measured against another quantity or amount ⇒ a rate of 70 miles an hour
a price or charge with reference to a standard or scale ⇒ rate of interest, rate of discount
(as modifier) ⇒ a rate card
a charge made per unit for a commodity, service, etc
See rates
the relative speed of progress or change of something variable; pace ⇒ he works at a great rate, the rate of production has doubled
relative quality; class or grade
(in combination) ⇒ first-rate ideas
(statistics) a measure of the frequency of occurrence of a given event, such as births and deaths, usually expressed as the number of times the event occurs for every thousand of the total population considered
a wage calculated against a unit of time
the amount of gain or loss of a timepiece
See at any rate