| 单词 | market rate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarket rate market rate n. (a) the price currently asked for a commodity or service in a particular market; (b) the current annual percentage rate of interest (whether charged on loans or accruing to investments) as determined by market forces. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > current value market rate1662 market value1691 present value1693 present worth1771 1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 61 Unless the said inequality in Colledges happen by reason of the fewness of particulars, according to the market rates whereof, their Rents are paid in money. 1692 J. Locke Some Considerations Lowering Interest 102 If Money were..to be had..from the Owner himself,..it might then probably be had at the Market..Rate, and would be a constant gauge of your Trade and Wealth. 1700 Prior Robe's Geogr. 22 To Those, who at the Market-Rate Can barter Honour for Estate. 1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury vii. 69 No law can reduce the rate of interest below the ordinary market rate, at the time when the law was made. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. iii. vii. 336 The market rate of wages. 1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 721/1 When the market rate of interest is high money is said to be dear, when it is low money is regarded as cheap. 1991 South Aug. 54/3 These companies have soaked up a sizeable proportion of the available credit in the country, mostly at preferential interest rates, forcing smaller fry to borrow at above market rates (sometimes more than 10 per cent more). 1991 Hindu (Madras) 6 Dec. 12/5 The financial institutions entered the market at the fag end of the session and bought select shares at the market rates. < as lemmas |
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