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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rate + payer
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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".
Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
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.
Our country's history with wind power consists of grand promises from politicians, huge investments of taxpayer dollars, ratepayer sacrifice and embarrassingly underwhelming returns.
“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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