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Cut-rate

Definition: Cut-rate

Cut-rate

Adjective

1. Costing less than standard price; "buying bargain-priced clothes for the children"; "cut-rate goods".

2. Offering goods or services at less than standard price or rate; "a bargain outlet"; "cut-rate store".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Cut-rate

Synonyms: bargain (adj), bargain-priced (adj), cut-price (adj), cut-price(a) (adj), cut-rate(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Cut-rate

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I object to a cut-rate one. (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

What do you think this isa cut-rate drugstore? (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Cut-rate

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Cut-rate

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Taiwan

As a whole, warehouse stores are larger stores carrying a diversified range of products at cut-rate prices. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Cut-rate

"Cut-rate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cut-rate" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Cut-rate

Language Translations for "cut-rate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

spotpris (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), dumpingpris (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

spotprijs (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

polkuhinta (very low price), pilkkahinta (ridiculously low price). (various references)

   

French

  

vil prix (cut-rate price), prix sacrifié (cut-rate price), prix dérisoire (cut-rate price), faire concurrence à quelqu'un en vendant au rabais (cut-rate competition). (various references)

   

German

  

Billig... (cut-price). (various references)

   

Italian

  

prezzo sotto costo (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), prezzo irrisorio (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), prezzo d'occasione (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), prezzo di dumping (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping, dumping practices, dumping price, give-away price, Predatory price, ruinous price). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ut-ratecay

   

Portuguese

  

preço ruinoso (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), preço em "dumping". (various references)

   

Russian 

  

льготный (preferential). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

vil precio (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), precio irrisorio (bargain price), precio dúmping (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), precio baratísimo (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gottköpsaffär (bargain store, cut-price shop, cut-rate store), dumpningspris (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price), dumpingpris (bargain price, cut-rate price, dumping price, give-away price, ruinous price). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Cut-rate

Misspellings

"Cut-rate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cataratie. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Cut-rate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: curtate.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-r-t-t-u"

-1 letter: acuter, curate, cutter, tauter.

-2 letters: acute, caret, carte, cater, crate, cruet, curet, cuter, eruct, react, recta, recut, tacet, tater, tecta, tetra, trace, tract, treat, truce, urate, utter.

-3 letters: acre, care, cart, cate, cure, curt, cute, ecru, race, rate, tace, tact, tare, tart, tate, taut, tear, teat, tret, true, urea.

-4 letters: ace, act, arc, are.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-r-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: cultrate, cutwater, eructate, truncate, urticate.

 

+2 letters: acquitter, curettage, cutwaters, eructated, eructates, micturate, outercoat, reductant, reluctant, reluctate, rusticate, truncated, truncates, urticated, urticates, utterance.

 

+3 letters: acquitters, articulate, autoerotic, counteract, curettages, eructating, eructation, haircutter, micturated, micturates, outercoats, reductants, reluctated, reluctates, reticulate, rusticated, rusticates, scattergun, subtracted, subtracter, tautomeric, tentacular, testicular, trifurcate, turtleback, utterances.

 

+4 letters: acculturate, anticruelty, articulated, articulates, carburetted, carburetter, carburettor, contracture, counteracts, counterpart, countryseat, curtailment, eructations, haircutters, matriculate, natriuretic, particulate, recultivate, reluctantly, reluctating, reluctation, resuscitate, reticulated, reticulates, scatterguns, scoutmaster, stagestruck, subtracters, subtractive, therapeutic, trabeculate, traducement, translucent, trifurcated, trifurcates, truckmaster, tuberculate, turtlebacks, ultrasecret, uncastrated, uncertainty, unreluctant.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Usage Frequency
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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