| 单词 | going rate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoing rate a. Originally: †(of money) acceptable as legal tender, current (obsolete). Later more generally: that is generally accepted for commercial, financial, or similar purposes (as going price, going rate, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > [noun] > coins and notes > kind of money > current or legal lawful1533 going1591 pass-gilt1657 real money1675 legal tender?1730 legal tender1740 1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xiv. f. 51v One hundred rubbles of going money of Mosko. 1780 in Rec. Rhode Island (1864) IX. 269 A committee should be appointed in order to ascertain the respective balances..according to the value of the going currency. 1785 February, 1781 Rhode Island Gen. Assembly 12 To take such Surplus of Corn, allowing the Owner thereof the going Price for the same. 1827 Louisiana Advertiser 17 Feb. (advt.) These Freights are offered at present going rates only. 1833 Sporting Mag. June 75/2 The others [were] so little thought of..that 5, 6, and 10 to 1 was the going price in the market against them. 1865 F. Kirkland Cycl. Commerc. Anecd. II. x. 550/2 [He] bought two small lots of land, at the going rate, and sold them seven or eight years after, for twenty-five hundred dollars. 1892 J. Miller Workingman's Paradise 187 He said he'd never pay under the going wage to anybody and gave me sixpence. 1927 W. T. Foster & W. Catchings Business without Buyer v. 59 Presently, there are more goods on hand than the people can buy and pay for out of income, at the going price-level. 1971 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 29 May ii. 1/6 An investigation..showed that the going bribe [in the mid-19th century] for a state senator was $10,000. 2003 M. Belson On the Press ii. 94 Every saved minute was paid for at half the going hourly union rate for a proofreader. < as lemmas |
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