rating en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/ (US)
- (US) audio
- [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ] (US)
- /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/ (UK)
Meanings
- A position on a scale.
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An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies. […] But through its months-long investigation of the BBB, CNNMoney found that this rating system – a key part of what the organization’s reputation is built on – is seriously flawed, with more than 100 companies in hot water with government agencies receiving A ratings
2015 September 30, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, “How the Better Business Bureau rakes in millions”, in CNN Business:They have a poor credit rating.
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A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
He has a high chess rating.
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A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.
1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
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A seaman in a warship.
Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.
2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire:
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(UK) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.
Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope
1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ratings | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Q rating · target rating point · age rating · gross vehicle weight rating · nonrating · Hooperating · output rating · Elo rating · octane rating · hourly rating · able rating
Translations (60)
az reytinq (evaluation of status) · ja 評価 (evaluation of status) · fi luokitus (mark that refers to the ability of something) · de Rating (evaluation of status) · hy ռեյտինգ (evaluation of status) · fi luokitus (position on a scale) · cs ohodnocení (mark that refers to the ability of something) · pt patente (status of a seaman) · fi luokitus (evaluation of status) · es rating (position on a scale) · cmn 評級 /评级 (evaluation of status) · hy վարկանիշ (mark that refers to the ability of something) · mk рејтинг (evaluation of status) · ko 등급 (evaluation of status) · ko 평가 (evaluation of status) · uk ре́йтинг (evaluation of status) · ko 순위 (evaluation of status) · it valutazione (mark that refers to the ability of something) · fa درجهبندی (position on a scale) · ja 格付け (evaluation of status) · es rating (evaluation of status) · ko 레이팅 (evaluation of status) · sh rejting (mark that refers to the ability of something) · hu értékelés (evaluation of status) · ga grád (status of a seaman) · fr rating (evaluation of status) · hu rangsorolás (evaluation of status) · fr évaluation (evaluation of status) · es rating (mark that refers to the ability of something) · ru ре́йтинг (evaluation of status) · es calificación (mark that refers to the ability of something) · lv novērtējums (evaluation of status) · fi merimies (seaman in a warship) · fi luokitus (status of a seaman) · la taxātiō (evaluation of status) · es calificación (evaluation of status) · sh рејтинг (evaluation of status) · ka რეიტინგი (evaluation of status) · cmn 級別 /级别 (evaluation of status) · he חוֹגֵר (seaman in a warship) · fi merisotilas (seaman in a warship) · ja 等級 (evaluation of status) · he דֵּרוּג (status of a seaman) · is einkunn (evaluation of status) · fr notation (position on a scale) · sh rejting (evaluation of status) · bg класи́ране (position on a scale) · bg ре́йтинг (evaluation of status) · it punteggio (mark that refers to the ability of something) · be рэ́йтынг (evaluation of status) · uk оці́нка (evaluation of status) · pt marca (position on a scale) · cs hodnocení (mark that refers to the ability of something) · cmn 分級 /分级 (evaluation of status) · es calificación (position on a scale) · hy վարկանիշ (evaluation of status) · fr notation (evaluation of status) · sh рејтинг (mark that refers to the ability of something) · kk рейтинг (evaluation of status) · ja レイティング (evaluation of status)