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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



... what they are paid for, or resign the business. They are our rain doctors, and they should procure us the precious fluid. If they cannot, why should we pay them a heavenly water-rate? The rain doctors of savages are kept to their contract. They are expected to bring rain when it is required, and if they do not, the consequences are unpleasant. They are sometimes disgraced, and occasionally killed. But the rain doctors in civilised countries ...
— Flowers of Freethought - (Second Series) • George W. Foote


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


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