单词 | traffic rate |
释义 | > as lemmastraffic rate traffic rate n. (a) a fixed charge for transportation of a certain quantity of a particular category or kind of freight (now rare); (b) the rate at which vehicles, etc., pass to and fro along a route.In sense (a) chiefly in the context of railway transportation: see main sense 8a. ΚΠ 1844 Staffs. Advertiser 12 Oct. Mr. Hall said he had been informed yesterday that the gentlemen whom he represented would give the Potteries a fair traffic rate. 1920 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 17 Oct. iii. 1/2 Over the Manhattan spans the daily traffic rate is 20,214 motor vehicles. 1958 Financial Times 1 July 5/4 The State owned railways..ignored Mr Naudé's ‘increased productivity’ stipulation by passing on the [wage] increases in the form of higher traffic rates. 2014 Jrnl. Herpetol. 48 501/2 Traffic rates were recorded with a pneumatically activated traffic counter. < as lemmas |
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