…a measure, quantity, or frequency, typically one measured against some other quantity or measure…
…underestimate the extent, value, or importance of (someone or something)…
…(in the UK) the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks, used as the benchmark for interest rates generally…
…the rate at which an enterprise spends money, especially venture capital, in excess of income…
…a charge that is the same in all cases, not varying in proportion with something…
…the official or advertised price of a hotel room, on which a discount is usually negotiable…
…a person who switches from one credit card or mortgage provider to another in order to take advantage of special introductory offers…
…the maximum rate at which an amplifier can respond to an abrupt change of input level…
…the percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after viewing only one page…
…the annual percentage rate at which customers stop subscribing to a service or employees leave a job…
…the percentage of people visiting a web page who access a hypertext link to a particular advertisement…
…an exchange rate between two currencies computed by reference to a third currency, usually the US dollar…
…the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area during a particular period of time, usually calculated as the number of deaths per one thousand people per year…
…the minimum interest rate set by the Federal Reserve for lending to other banks…
…an increased rate of pay for overtime or for work performed under abnormal conditions…
…(formerly in the UK) the imposition of an upper limit on the rates leviable by a local authority…
…a coefficient of proportionality relating the rate of a chemical reaction at a given temperature to the concentration of reactant (in a unimolecular reaction) or to the product of the concentrations of reactants…
…used to introduce the prediction of a particular unwelcome eventuality should things continue as they are or if a certain assumption is true…
…the rate at which atmospheric temperature decreases with increasing altitude in conditions of thermal equilibrium…
…the rate at which the body uses energy while at rest to keep vital functions going, such as breathing and keeping warm…
…a mortgage whose rate of interest is adjusted periodically to reflect market conditions…
…an arrangement within the European Monetary System that allows the value of participating currencies to fluctuate to a defined degree in relation to each other so as to control exchange rates. Each currency is given a rate of exchange with the euro, from which it is allowed to fluctuate by no more than a specified amount; if it moves beyond this the government in question must alter its economic policies or reset the currency’s rate with the euro…
