infection | (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure |
infection | moral corruption or contamination, ambitious men are led astray by an infection that is almost unavoidable |
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 |
risk risk of infection | the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred |
bargain rate cheapness cut rate cut price | a price below the standard price |
contagion infection | the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people, a contagion of mirth, the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry |
infection contagion transmission | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
locus of infection | the specific site in the body where an infection originates |
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 |
rates | a local tax on property (usually used in the plural) |
poor rates | a local tax for the relief of the poor |
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 |
excursion rate | a reduced rate for a round-trip ticket |
room rate | the rate charged daily for a hotel room |
basal metabolic rate BMR | the rate at which heat is produced by an individual in a resting state |
infection | (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease |
infection | (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound |
baud baud rate | (computer science) a data transmission rate (bits second) for modems |
case-to-infection proportion case-to-infection ratio | the number of cases of a disease divided by the number of infections with the agent that causes the disease |
rate | a quantity or amount or measure considered as a proportion of another quantity or amount or measure, the literacy rate, the retention rate, the dropout rate |
absentee rate | the percentage of workers who do not report to work |
occupancy rate | the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) are occupied or rented at a given time |
vacancy rate | the percentage of all rental units (as in hotels) that are unoccupied or not rented at a given time |
unemployment rate | the percentage of the work force that is unemployed at any given date |
mileage fuel consumption rate gasoline mileage gas mileage | the ratio of the number of miles traveled to the number of gallons of gasoline burned |
employee turnover turnover rate turnover | the ratio of the number of workers that had to be replaced in a given time period to the average number of workers |
Vincent's angina Vincent's infection trench mouth | an acute communicable infection of the respiratory tract and mouth marked by ulceration of the mucous membrane |
a venereal disease VD venereal infection social disease Cupid's itch Cupid's disease Venus's curse dose sexually transmitted disease STD | a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact |
infection | the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms |
focal infection | bacterial infection limited to a specific organ or region especially one causing symptoms elsewhere |
fungal infection mycosis | an inflammatory condition caused by a fungus |
nonsocial infection cross infection | an infection that is acquired at a hospital or other healthcare facility |
opportunistic infection | any infection caused by a microorganism that does not normally cause disease in humans, occurs in persons with abnormally functioning immune systems (as AIDS patients or transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs) |
protozoal infection | any infection caused by a protozoan |
respiratory tract infection respiratory infection | any infection of the respiratory tract |
lower respiratory infection | infection of the lower respiratory tract |
upper respiratory infection | infection of the upper respiratory tract |
staphylococcal infection | an infection with staphylococcus bacteria, usually marked by abscess formation |