Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that pays rates.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is assessed and pays a rate or local tax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who pays rates or taxes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who pays for
utility service
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who pays local rates (especially a householder)
Etymologies
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Examples
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As for everyone having solar panels on their roof, selling excess power back to "the system", keep in mind that the power system is set up to distrubute power from a few big generating stations to you, the "ratepayer".
Economics of Hydrogen, II, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The independents on the council are in the old-fashioned "ratepayer" =independent Tory mold.
Morning Live Blog 2007
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Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
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Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
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So in theory at least, risks would be transferred from the utility to the ratepayer with utilities at least guaranteed to break even.
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Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
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Further, if BWW decided to sell McCall's they would realize the gain and what was once public property would no longer benefit that public except for the $3-4 credit to the ratepayer ledger from BWW.
More hemming and hawing on Lents meeting procedure (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
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“Stephen Ward, chief of staff for Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman, D-N. M, said Wednesday that lawmakers fear a ratepayer backlash” if carbon pollution is capped, telling “a room full of alternative-energy financiers at the Lazard Capital Markets Alternative Energy Investor Summit” that he foresees “a more modest bill” than Waxman-Markey coming from the Senate.
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This does not reduce the actual cost; it just transfers it to the general taxpayer or ratepayer.
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