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rateable, a.|ˈreɪtəb(ə)l|
Also 6– ratable.
[f. rate v.1 + -able.]
1. Capable of being rated, estimated, or calculated, esp. in accordance with some scale; proportional.
1503Rolls of Parlt. VI. 533/1 Chargeable with lyke and egall Sommes, ratable at xxs of Freeholde. 1598Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 420 He shall have the Writ to be discharged for a ratable proportion. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. §103. 624 A rateable distribution being made of their estates to the Kings well-deseruing friends. 1628Earle Microcosm., Gallant (Arb.) 40 He is..an ornament..and is meerely ratable accordingly, fiftie or an hundred Pound. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) II. 124 Men consented to fix certain rateable values upon money. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1842) I. 19 Requiring a rateable part, according to such declaration.
2. Liable to payment of rates. rateable value, the value ascribed to a property for the purpose of assessing the rates to be levied on it.
1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. ii. (ed. 2) 231 English subjects, being free holders, rateable to a certain value. Ibid. 327 Protestants of 10s. rateable estate. 1818Bentham Ch. Eng., Catech. Exam. 165 To paupers, as well as to rateable inhabitants. 1836Act 6 & 7 Will. IV c. 96 Gross estimated Rental. Rateable Value. Rate at 6d. in the Pound. 1846Grote Greece i. xi. (1862) II. 319 The rateable property of the citizen. 1874Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 54 §4 The gross and rateable value of any land used for a plantation or a wood..shall be estimated as follows. 1909Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 4/3 Mr. Lloyd George is understood..to have promised favourable consideration to the plea of the London Members for some alteration in the ‘rateable-value’ basis. 1925Act 15 & 16 Geo. V c. 90 §2 Every general rate shall be a rate at a uniform amount per pound on the rateable value of each hereditament. 1962L. Golding Dict. Local Govt. 408 The net annual value is in most cases the rateable value. 1971Reader's Digest Family Guide to Law 88/1 Ratepayers do not pay an amount equal to the full rateable value of their property each year. They pay a proportion of it—the rate in the {pstlg}. 1976Evening Post (Nottingham) 14 Dec. 4/7 The rateable values did not take into account the disadvantages of living in the city centre. |