First-rate (a.) Of the highest excellence |
First-rate (n.) A war vessel of the highest grade or the most powerful class. |
Rate (v. t. & i.) To chide with vehemence |
Rate (n.) Established portion or measure |
Rate (n.) That which is established as a measure or criterion |
Rate (n.) Valuation |
Rate (n.) A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value |
Rate (n.) Order |
Rate (n.) Ratification |
Rate (n.) The gain or loss of a timepiece in a unit of time |
Rate (n.) The order or class to which a war vessel belongs, determined according to its size, armament, etc. |
Rate (n.) The class of a merchant vessel for marine insurance, determined by its relative safety as a risk, as A1, A2, etc. |
Rate (v. t.) To set a certain estimate on |
Rate (v. t.) To assess for the payment of a rate or tax. |
Rate (v. t.) To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of |
Rate (v. t.) To ratify. |
Rate (v. i.) To be set or considered in a class |
Rate (v. i.) To make an estimate. |
Second-rate (a.) Of the second size, rank, quality, or value |
Standard (n.) A flag |
Standard (n.) That which is established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, extent, value, or quality |
Standard (n.) That which is established as a rule or model by authority, custom, or general consent |
Standard (n.) The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. |
Standard (n.) A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. |
Standard (n.) The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. |
Standard (n.) An upright support, as one of the poles of a scaffold |
Standard (n.) An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. |
Standard (n.) The sheth of a plow. |
Standard (n.) A large drinking cup. |
Standard (a.) Being, affording, or according with, a standard for comparison and judgment |
Standard (a.) Hence: Having a recognized and permanent value |
Standard (a.) Not supported by, or fastened to, a wall |
Standard (a.) Not of the dwarf kind |
Standard-bred (a.) Bred in conformity to a standard. Specif., applied to a registered trotting horse which comes up to the standard adopted by the National Association of Trotting-horse Breeders. |
Standard-wing (n.) A curious paradise bird (Semioptera Wallacii) which has two long special feathers standing erect on each wing. |
Wage (v. t.) To pledge |
Wage (v. t.) To expose one's self to, as a risk |
Wage (v. t.) To engage in, as a contest, as if by previous gage or pledge |
Wage (v. t.) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward |
Wage (v. t.) To put upon wages |
Wage (v. t.) To give security for the performance of. |
Wage (v. i.) To bind one's self |
Wage (v. t.) That which is staked or ventured |
Wage (v. t.) That for which one labors |
Water rate () A rate or tax for a supply of water. |
wage freeze | a freeze of wages at a given level |
standing operating procedure standard operating procedure SOP standard procedure | a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely, rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries |
standard schnauzer | a medium-sized schnauzer |
standard poodle | a breed or medium-sized poodles |
Clark cell Clark standard cell | a form of voltaic cell once used as a standard for electromotive force |
standard banner | any distinctive flag |
standard | an upright pole or beam (especially one used as a support), distance was marked by standards every mile, lamps supported on standards provided illumination |
standard cell | a primary cell used as a standard of electromotive force |
standard gauge | railroad track having the standard width of . inches |
standard transmission stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal |
pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
raise rise wage hike hike wage increase salary increase | the amount a salary is increased, he got a % raise, he got a wage hike |
bargain rate cheapness cut rate cut price | a price below the standard price |
gold standard | a paragon of excellence, academic education is the gold standard against which other educational activity is pejoratively judged |
criterion standard | the ideal in terms of which something can be judged, they live by the standards of their community |
accounting principle accounting standard | a principle that governs current accounting practice and that is used as a reference to determine the appropriate treatment of complex transactions |
standard deviation | the square root of the variance |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange ASCII | (computer science) a code for information exchange between computers made by different companies, a string of binary digits represents each character, used in most microcomputers |
American Standard Version American Revised Version | a revised version of the King James Version |
Revised Standard Version | a revision of the American Standard Version |
Standard and Poor's Standard and Poor's Index | a broadly based stock market index |
wage floor | floor below which wages are not allowed to fall |
double standard | an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another |
double standard of sexual behavior | a code that permits greater sexual freedom for men than for women (associated with the subordination of women) |
standard generalized markup language SGML | (computer science) a standardized language for the descriptive markup of documents, a set of rules for using whatever markup vocabulary is adopted |
non-standard speech | speech that differs from the usual accepted, easily recognizable speech of native adult members of a speech community |
wage claim pay claim | the wage demanded from management for workers by their union representatives |
wage concession | an agreement to raise wages |
standard criterion measure touchstone | a basis for comparison, a reference point against which other things can be evaluated, the schools comply with federal standards, they set the measure for all subsequent work |
procrustean standard procrustean rule procrustean bed | a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
color bearer standard-bearer | the soldier who carries the standard of the unit in military parades or in battle |
earner wage earner | someone who earn wages in return for their labor |
standard-bearer | an outstanding leader of a political movement |
wage pay earnings remuneration salary | something that remunerates, wages were paid by check, he wasted his pay on drink, they saved a quarter of all their earnings |
living wage | a wage sufficient for a worker and family to subsist comfortably |
minimum wage | the lowest wage that an employer is allowed to pay, determined by contract or by law |
pay rate rate of pay | amount of money received per unit time, women's pay rate is lower than men's |
payment rate rate of payment repayment rate installment 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 |
discount rate discount bank discount | interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan |
bank rate | the discount rate fixed by a central bank |
discount rate | the rate of interest set by the Federal Reserve that member banks are charged when they borrow money through the Federal Reserve System |
base rate | the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks |
prime interest rate | the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings |
rate charge per unit | amount of a charge or payment relative to some basis, a -minute phone call at that rate would cost $ |
freight freightage freight rate | the charge for transporting something by common carrier, we pay the freight, the freight rate is usually cheaper |
rate of depreciation depreciation rate | the rate at which the value of property is reduced, used to calculate tax deduction |
rate of exchange exchange rate | the charge for exchanging currency of one country for currency of another |