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CHARGE PER UNIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis
Example:
a 10-minute phone call at that rate would cost $5
Synonyms:
charge per unit; rate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("charge per unit" is a kind of...):
charge (the price charged for some article or service)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "charge per unit"):
pay rate; rate of pay (amount of money received per unit time)
installment rate; payment rate; rate of payment; repayment rate (the amount of money paid out per unit time)
tax rate (rate used to calculate tax liability)
interest rate; rate of interest (the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use)
freight; freight rate; freightage (the charge for transporting something by common carrier)
depreciation rate; rate of depreciation (the rate at which the value of property is reduced; used to calculate tax deduction)
exchange rate; rate of exchange (the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another)
excursion rate (a reduced rate for a round-trip ticket)
footage (a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done)
linage; lineage (a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted)
room rate (the rate charged daily for a hotel room)
