ratel (ratel)

[ ratepayer (rāt pā"ér), n. One who is a e ed and pays a rate or local tax. [Great Britain.] In the vestry-meeting the freemen of the township, the ratepayers, still a emble for purposes of local interest, not involved in the manorial jurisdiction. Stubbs, Const. Hist., § 43. IMG:content-1663.jpg:[merged small][graphic][merged small] They have already in many towns supplied us, at the expense of the ratepayers , with hospitals, museums, free libraries, art galleries, baths, and parks. Westminster Rev., CXXV. 17. rate paying (rat'pā"ing), a. Paying a local tax; relating to taxation by a e ment. In addition to the... eccentricity from an Australian point of view of a rate paying or property basis for the parliamentary franchise, Tasmania has another legislative peculiarity which she copied from Victoria, and shares. only with that colony and with New Zealand. Sir C. W. Dilke , Probs. of Greater Britain, ii. 4. rater (rā'ter), n. [ rate2 + -er1.] One who rates or sets a value; one who makes an estimate.