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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of derate.

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Examples

  • If you folks want us Mo derates/Independents back I suggest your Party's ...

    Are Florida-19's results a good political indicator? 2010

  • A Cake Derator derates cakes, of course...which is much more PC and kind than berating them.

    Signs of Trouble 2009

  • The M.derates, with M. Lindman as Prime M.nister, then introduced a Bill incorporating M. Petersson's proposals with the addition of the direct election of provincial councils and a less plutocratic franchise.

    Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election John H. Humphreys

  • I use a concentrator at 8500 ft it derates the % out put to 90% so you have to increase flow at selevwel i use 3 lpm in the mountians is use 4.5

    medical oxygen 1919

  • Since the failure of the mission of M. Jules Favre, and the exorbitant demands which were then put forward by Count Bismarck, both M.derates and Ultras have supported the men who are in power.

    Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871

  • It must be borne in mind that he is envious and spiteful, avenging himself for his incapacity on those whose competency makes him sensible of his incompetence; he denounces them as M.derates, and, at last, succeeds in having a warrant of arrest issued against his four chief clerks; on the morning of Thermidor 9, with a wicked leer, he himself carries the news to one of them, M. M.ot.

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

  • Fortunately, they don't use a lot, but still, when you need it, and you're running down the highway and all of a sudden your engine derates in power and you have to get off a multi-lane freeway before you get hit by traffic, that really sounds like a great deal too.

    Yahoo! News: Top Stories 2010

  • When it heats above 35 degrees C, power derates very quickly.

    unknown title 2008

  • The pope, as well as Charles and Maximilian, acceded to thb league; and Henry thus became ai'biter of the disputes that afterwards arose among the confe - derates 51

    The life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey Galt, John, 1779-1839 1812

  • The municipalities, by the necef - jBty of their fituation, and by the republican powers they have obtained, muft, with relation to. the mili - tary, be the matters, or the fcrvants, or the confe - derates, or each fucceffively; or they muft make a jumble of all together, according to circumftances.

    Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... 1790

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