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rateable en · ADJ
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English rate
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English rateable
From rate + -able.
Meanings
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Liable to incur the payment of rates.
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Able to be evaluated with a rating.
Forms
Deriveds
rateable value · unrateable · rateably
rateable en · NOUN
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English rate
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English rateable
From rate + -able.
Meanings
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A property whose value is assessed by an authority to determine the payment of rates.
[…] proportion of all taxes paid by commercial and industrial rateables (not per household) […]
1975, Edwin S. Mills, Wallace E. Oates, Fiscal Zoning and Land Use Controls: The Economic Issues (page 162)
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