Crossword clues for ratepayer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ratepayer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
▪ If local landfills filled faster than expected, local ratepayers would be forced to build a new one, he said.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates.
▪ How one balances the interests of property, in the guise of ratepayers, and other interests is a classic political choice.
▪ If local landfills filled faster than expected, local ratepayers would be forced to build a new one, he said.
▪ It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath.
▪ They are highly perceptible to ratepayers and they promote accountability.
▪ They were partially successful in 1907, when unmarried women ratepayers were allowed to stand as candidates.
▪ Usually it is up to the ratepayers in the area to pay for the clean-up afterwards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ratepayer
Ratepayer \Rate"pay`er\ (-p[=a]`[~e]r), n. One who pays rates or taxes.
Wiktionary
ratepayer
n. Someone who pays for utility service
WordNet
ratepayer
n. a person who pays local rates (especially a householder)
Usage examples of "ratepayer".
Glitberg had run a flourishing construction racket for years, robbing the ratepayers of literally millions.
It was a massive operation and cost the ratepayers millions, but no one complained.
Even if the utilities lost their appeals, which they usually did, the effect of the pancaking was to force ratepayers, including many poor people, to give them massive low-interest loans.