| 单词 | police rate | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspolice rate   police rate  n. a police tax; a tax for the maintenance of a police force. ΚΠ 1829    Times 15 Apr. 4/2  				Overseers to levy police rate not to exceed 6d. in the pound, and collect the same. 1863    R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 28  				They pay road and police-rates. 1902    Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 818/1  				The county council of any county within the Metropolitan Police District has to transfer to the receiver of police a sum bearing..proportion to the police rate. 1985    Times 15 Oct. 2/5  				He bitterly criticized Labour's ‘extremist’ councillors in London for planning to withhold next year's Metropolitan police rate. < as lemmas | 
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