| 单词 | message rate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmessage rate message rate n. now chiefly historical (a) Telegraphy the cost of sending a telegraphic message; (b) Telephony a fixed payment per call made by a telephone user, as opposed to a subscription paid for unlimited use of the telephone during a specified period. ΚΠ 1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 6 On the acquirement of the telegraphs by the post office..the present uniform 1s. message rate was adopted. 1901 Daily Chron. 30 Nov. 7/7 [Post Office Telephones.] Most of these [agreements] are at what is known as the message rate. 1966 Jrnl. Industr. Econ. 14 269 The tariff's internal structure is, as in most telephone systems, a ‘message rate’ system, in which users pay a quarterly rental plus a charge for each call completed. < as lemmas |
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