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- noun Plural form of
rater .
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Examples
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Fraud on the part of credit raters is equally easy to infer -- we have the internal emails that document intent to defraud securities purchasers by "pay to play" schemes.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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Fraud on the part of credit raters is equally easy to infer -- we have the internal emails that document intent to defraud securities purchasers by "pay to play" schemes.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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Fraud on the part of credit raters is equally easy to infer -- we have the internal emails that document intent to defraud securities purchasers by "pay to play" schemes.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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Fraud on the part of credit raters is equally easy to infer -- we have the internal emails that document intent to defraud securities purchasers by "pay to play" schemes.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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Fraud on the part of credit raters is equally easy to infer -- we have the internal emails that document intent to defraud securities purchasers by "pay to play" schemes.
William K. Black: Foreclose on the Foreclosure Fraudsters, Part 2: Spurious Arguments Against Holding the Fraudsters Accountable William K. Black 2010
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If you want to learn more about the secretive, sometimes inconsistent way the MPAA rates films, I recommend the fascinating documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated by Oscar-nominated director Kirby Dick, which interviews filmmakers who have run afoul of the MPAA and attempts to find out exactly who is rating America's films, since the identities of the raters are a closely-kept secret.
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Blue Valentine -- NC-17? Really? Jonathan Kim 2011
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The word has the virtue of suggesting that the critic is smarter than other raters, which is always fun.
Everyone's a Critic 2008
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People have mostly ignored the role of the bond raters, which is a big mistake.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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People have mostly ignored the role of the bond raters, which is a big mistake.
Progressive Bloggers 2009
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I'll bet the 'raters' are not really experts on the Kennedy clan's geneology, either; and the repeat of first names in differing generations does make it somewhat confusing.
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