rate

There shall no figure at such rate be set, / As that of true and faithfull Iuliet.

In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%.

The car was speeding down here at a hell of a rate.

The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.

He asked quite a rate to take me to the airport.

Postal rates here are low.

We pay an hourly rate of between $10 – $15 per hour depending on qualifications and experience.

I hardly have enough left every month to pay the rates.

This textbook is first-rate.

The one right feeble through the evil rate / Of food which in her duress she had found.

Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.

Tis offerd, Sir, 'boue the rate of Caesar

In other men, but in what I approue

Beneath his merits: which I will not faile

T'enforce at full to Pompey, nor forget

In any time the gratitude of my seruice.

daily rate; hourly rate; etc.