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Poor rates   /pur reɪts/   Listen
Poor rates

noun
1.
A local tax for the relief of the poor.





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"Poor rates" Quotes from Famous Books



... It is very curious to watch the efforts of two shop-keepers to ruin each other, neither having the least idea that his ruined neighbour must eventually be supported at his own expense, with an increase of poor rates; and that the contest between them is not in reality which shall get everything for himself, but which shall first take upon himself and his customers the gratuitous ...
— A Joy For Ever - (And Its Price in the Market) • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Poor rates" :   U.K., United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, rates, Britain, Great Britain, United Kingdom, UK


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