| 单词 | ratepayer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasratepayer ratepayer n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > local or municipal taxes or dues > [noun] > rates > rate-payer ratepayer1798 1798 Parl. Reg. 1797–1802 VI. 148 Colonel Stanley observed, that not only the Magistrates and the Rate-payers, but the most of the whole county, expressed their warm approbation of the bill. 1841 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. I. 113 The election by the rate payers, of a certain number of vestrymen. 1955 Times 27 June 9/3 No ratepayer can properly gauge the effect of revaluation until he knows what rate his local authority intends to levy in the new dispensation. 1994 Our Schools, our Selves Nov. 122 It is highly unlikely that any future constituency of ratepayers is going to accept a multimillion dollar increase in the school budget. < as lemmas |
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