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Water-rate   /wˈɔtər-reɪt/   Listen
Water-rate

noun
1.
Rate per quarter for water from a public supply.





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"Water-rate" Quotes from Famous Books



... says, Miss Hugonin, the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts, but its visions of existence are rose-tinged and free from care, and its conception of the responsibilities of manhood—such as taxes and the water-rate—I may safely characterise as extremely sketchy. But pray be seated, Miss Hugonin," ...
— The Eagle's Shadow • James Branch Cabell
... world, as you will find, is full not only of just but of generous souls—that if the water-supply were set really right, there would be found, in many a city, many a generous man who, over and above his compulsory water-rate, would give his poor fellow-townsmen such a real fountain as those which ennoble the great square at Carcasonne and the great square at Nismes; to be "a thing of beauty and ...
— Health and Education • Charles Kingsley


Words linked to "Water-rate" :   United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Britain, charge, Great Britain, UK, U.K.


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