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RATES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A local tax on property (usually used in the plural)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("rates" is a kind of...):
revenue enhancement; tax; taxation (charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rates"):
poor rates (a local tax for the relief of the poor)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb rate
Context examples:
A study that compares large groups of people instead of individuals for differences in things such as cancer rates.
(Ecologic study, NCI Dictionary)
The use of cisplatin-based combination chemotherapy has significantly improved the survival rates of the patients.
(Immature Ovarian Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Risk of hematopoietic cell transplant relapse rates per patient year with p value between 0.26 and 0.37.
(Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Relapse Standard Risk Rate, NCI Thesaurus)
Children grow at different rates, so it isn't always easy to know when a child is obese or overweight.
(Obesity in Children, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
It usually has an aggressive clinical course characterized by high recurrence rates and distant metastases.
(Paranasal Sinus Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
A section of the Older Americans Resources and Services (OARS) physical health questionnaire that rates the type of comorbidity and the impact of that comorbidity on an individual's daily function.
(Older Americans Resources and Services Comorbidity Scale, NCI Thesaurus)
Five year disease-free survival rates between 80% and 90% have been reported in patients who underwent extensive surgical removal of the tumor.
(Oral Cavity Verrucous Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The characteristic movements of drugs within biological systems, as affected by absorption, distribution, binding, elimination, biotransformation, and excretion; particularly the rates of such movements.
(Pharmacokinetics, NCI Thesaurus)
A study to compare the results of people taking a new treatment with the results of people taking the standard treatment (for example, which group has better survival rates or fewer side effects).
(phase III trial, NCI Dictionary)
It reduces exercise heart rates and delays atrioventricular conduction, with overall oxygen requirements decreasing.
(Atenolol, NCI Thesaurus)
