词汇 | flat-rate |
释义 | flat rate noun[ C ] UKuk /ˈflæt ˌreɪt/ us /ˈflæt ˌreɪt/ a charge that is the same for everyone: 统一价格;定额收费 Clients are charged at a flat monthly rate.按月向客户统一收取定额费用。 a flat-rate contribution所有人数额相同的定期缴款 Costs & expenses admission charge aliment all in at cost at someone's expense bank charges outgo outlay overrun palimony price point pricing redress remittance reserve RPI spend ticket tune upkeep flat rate | Business Englishflat rate noun[ C ] ukus a rate that is fixed at a particular level that does not change, however much work is done or however much a service is used: The only exceptions to this flat rate are calls to 0800 and 0808 numbers. They were the first to introduce flat-rate pricing for texts and mobile broadband. a flat-rate contribution FINANCE a rate of interest on a loan that is charged on the original amount that was borrowed, not on the amount of debt that is still to be paid back: If you borrow £5,000 on a 6% flat rate, you will still pay 6% interest on £5,000 in the last year, when most of the loan has already been repaid. Compare APR a rate that is the same for everyone: Employees will contribute a flat rate of £15 monthly. Examples of flat rateflat rate Electricity is charged at a flatrate per year. Co-payments tend to be calculated in a way that combines a flatrate depending on the long-term care allowance and an income-related part. All the major federal parties supported the prolongation of the flatrate tax. For the elderly, the flatrate gradually increased, and in 2003, changed to an across-the-board 10% co-insurance rate. Moreover, most benefits are paid at a flatrate. The other impractical model was a universal tax-financed pension with a flatrate. Since then the allowances are paid at a flatrate irrespective of income, though they rise with the number of children. The effect of current plans for state pensions is to restore something closer to a flatrate state pension, but with significant complexity. Until 1996, hospitals were reimbursed by health insurance at a flatrate payment per day, independent of diagnosis and therapy. The flatrate was fixed at 5 shillings for men and 2s 6d for women. Hendricks (1999, 2001) shows that the growth effects of flatrate taxes depend in important ways on intercohort persistence. Running costs are calculated using the horsepower of the motor and the respective flatrate charged by the government and the annual repair charges in the reporting year. Household expenditures on water-related services varied from 4 per cent to 11 per cent of monthly income as the utility raised the flatrate it charged neighborhoods. The latter costs were paid at a flatrate, providing an incentive for cost control; at the same time, skimping on quality was checked through monitoring of standards of care. There was a serious drawback to his proposal, however: a flatrate contribution was far too harsh on persons of low income, especially rural but also urban workers. See all examples of flat rate These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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