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noun - The eighteenth letter of the Appendix:Roman script, English alphabet, preceded by Q and followed by S.
abbreviation - (context, US politics) Republican
- (film certification) restricted
- reverse
- right (as opposed to left)
- (context, handbells) ring
- (context, baseball, cricket) The statistic reporting the number of runs scored by a player
- Thursday
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noun (rall, ies)
- (squash) (table tennis) (tennis) A sequence of strokes between serve, serving and score, scoring a point.
- A demonstration.
- (motor racing) An event in which competitors drive through a series of timed special stages at intervals. The winner is the driver who completes all stages with the shortest cumulative time.
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verb (rall, i, ed)
- To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.
- To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite.
- To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate.
- To recover strength after a decline in prices; -- said of the market, stocks, etc.
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noun
- An amount measured in relation to another amount.
- The car was travelling at a rate of speed of fifty kilometres per hour.
- A price or fee determined in relation to a particular scale or standard.
- The central bank sets an interest rate.
- A price per unit for a service or product.
- Postal rates here are low.
- The relative speed of change or progress.
- The rate of production at the factory is skyrocketing.
- (statistics) A measure of the frequency of a given event, typically expressed as the number of occurrences of the event for every thousand or hundred thousand people in the total population considered.
- The mortality rate in the country was unusually high.
- wage, Wages calculated in relation to a unit of time.
- The pay rate is ten dollars per hour.
- A level of quality.
- This textbook is first rate.
verb (rat, ing)
- (transitive) To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level.
- She is rated fourth in the country.
- (transitive) To evaluate or estimate the value of.
- They rate his talents highly.
- (transitive) To consider or regard.
- He rated this book brilliant.
- (transitive) To deserve; to be worth.
- The view here hardly rates a mention in the travel guide.
- (transitive) To determine the limits of safe functioning for a machine or electrical device.
- The transformer is rated at 10 watts.
- (transitive) (chiefly ) To evaluate a property's value for the purposes of local taxation.
- (transitive) (informal) To like; to think highly of.
- The customers don't rate the new burgers.
- (intransitive) To have position (in a certain class).
- She rates among the most excellent chefs in the world.
- He rates as the best cyclist in the country.
- (intransitive) To have value or standing.
- This last performance of her's didn't rate very high with the judges.
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noun
- An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event
- The announcement of the verdict brought a violent .
- You were in the coutroom. What is your ?
- When I last tried to eat strawberries I had a terrible allergic .
- (chemistry) A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition
- In this , the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt.
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noun
- A debt owed, usually to a business, from the perspective of that business
- One man's is another man's payable.
- Especially, a debt arising from a sale on account or on credit.
adjective
- capable of being received, especially of a debt, from the perspective of the creditor.
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noun
- A person who receives something.
- A person who acts as trustee for a bankrupt.
- A person who accepts stolen goods.
- (football) A person who accepts the ball after it has been snapped.
- Any of several electronic devices that receives signals and converts them into sound or vision
- A court administrator
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noun
- A smoke-cured herring.
- (idiom) A clue that is misleading or that has been falsified, intended to divert attention (from the use of smoked herrings to mislead hounds following a trail).
- "Gall, the guy that does the hyp act is too shrewd, I think, to have committed such a smart murder and left himself with his pants down with no other red herring around." --Svengali Kill http://www.blackmask.com/books19c/svengalikill.htm
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verb (1=refinances, 2=refinancing, 3=refinanced, 4=refinanced)
- To renew the terms of a loan.
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verb
- (past of, register)
adjective
- having had one's name added to an official list or entered into a register
- a nurse
- a voter
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noun
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
verb
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
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noun
- The act or process of rearranging. See reorganize.
- The end result of such an act.
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noun
- The act of repairing something.
- I took the car to the workshop for repair.
- The result of repairing something.
- If you look closely you can see the in the paintwork
- The condition of something, in respect of need for repair.
- The car was overall in poor before the accident. But after the workshop had it for three weeks it was returned in excellent .
verb
- Restore to good working order, fix, or improve damaged condition; mend; remedied
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noun (usually reparations)
- A payment of time, effort or money to undue past transgression(s).
- The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway.
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noun
- The act of a person returning.
- "Upon my ..."
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect.
- (finance): Gain or loss from an investment. "It yielded a of 5%..."
- (context, taxation, finance): A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts. A tax return.
- (computing) A character that indicates a new line. Hexadecimal %x0d, decimal 13. Old typewriters had a carriage that lined up the paper with the printing strike-arms; with the advent of electronic typewriters, the "carriage return" key would realign the printing at the left margin, and advance to a new line. Early computers added <CR><LF> (13,10) to indicate a new line, with variations such as <LF> (10), <CR> (13) and even <LF><CR> (10,13). Modern computer use has expanded the meaning to denote a new paragraph.
- (computing) The act of going back from a called procedure to the procedure that called it.
- (computing) The data passed back from a called procedure to the calling procedure (also return value).
- A short extention (perpendicular) of a desk, usually slightly lower.
- (context, Football (American)): Catching a ball after a punt, and running it back towards the opposing team.
- (cricket) A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
verb
- To give something back to its original holder/owner.
- To take something back to a retailer for a refund.
- To come back after some period of time, or at regular intervals.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument. "But to to my story."
- (context, Tennis): To bat the ball in response to a serve over the net.
- (context, Card games): To play a card as a result of another player's lead; a trump.
- (cricket) To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- (computing) (intransitive) To go back from a called procedure to the procedure that called it.
- (computing) (transitive) Of a called procedure, to pass back (data) to the calling procedure.
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initialism - Register of Actions
- Raman optical activity
- Right of Abode
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| ROE |
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initialism
- (finance) Return on Equity: A measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.
- (military) Rules of Engagement
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noun - a block of shares of stock that is a multiple of some number, usually 100
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| rundown |
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noun
- A rough outline. Generally used in the definite, as the rundown.
- Could you give me the on the new rules?
- (baseball) A defensive play in which the runner is caught between two fielders, who steadily converge to tag the runner out.
- Smith is caught in a , but Jones will come around to score.
adjective , also run down
- Old and in bad repair.
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