单词 | death rate |
释义 | death rate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishdeath rateˈdeath rate noun [countable]1 Sthe number of deaths for every 100 or every 1,000 people in a particular year and in a particular place → birth rate2 the number of deaths each year from a particular disease or in a particular group childhood death ratesExamples from the Corpusdeath rate• Operative management is not without risk, however, as it has a reported 5-12% death rate.• Men, especially poor men, had a significantly higher death rate than women in their middle years.• From 1988-1998, the death rate from high blood pressure increased 16 percent.• However, progress in treating cancer has not been great enough to lower the death rate in the face of increased incidence. |
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