单词 | police rate |
释义 | > as lemmaspolice rate police rate n. a police tax; a tax for the maintenance of a police force. ΚΠ 1829 Times 15 Apr. 4/2 Overseers to levy police rate not to exceed 6d. in the pound, and collect the same. 1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 28 They pay road and police-rates. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 818/1 The county council of any county within the Metropolitan Police District has to transfer to the receiver of police a sum bearing..proportion to the police rate. 1985 Times 15 Oct. 2/5 He bitterly criticized Labour's ‘extremist’ councillors in London for planning to withhold next year's Metropolitan police rate. < as lemmas |
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