Base rate
the rate of pay per unit of time, as by the hour, or per piece, or for work performed at an established standard rate.
contemporary examples
the bush tax cuts expire in the plan, and the buffet rule would tax millionaires a base rate of 30 percent.
obama’s 2013 budget: perfectly reasonable, absolutely terrible daniel stone february 12, 2012
historical examples
for this distance the base rate of sixty cents per hundred pounds, first cl-ss, is fixed by common agreement.
railroads: rates and regulations william z. ripley
thus a rate is found which is reduced to a percentage of the original chicago base rate.
railroads: rates and regulations william z. ripley
their counterparts today are paid a monthly base rate of $592 and $800.
the civil war centennial handbook william h. price
noun
(brit) the rate of interest used by individual commercial banks as a basis for their lending rates
(brit, informal) the rate at which the bank of england lends to the discount houses, which effectively controls the interest rates charged throughout the banking system
(statistics) the average number of times an event occurs divided by the average number of times on which it might occur
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