plural of churn rate

The annual percentage rate at which customers stop using a service, or employees leave a job (staff turnover).

singular of mates' rates

Alternative form of ratebuster

plural of rate-buster

(epidemiology) The percentage of people who have tested positive out of all of those who have been tested (for a given pathogen).

(finance) A benchmark interest rate, from which other interest rates are calculated, policy rate / (UK) Especially, the interest rate at which the Bank of England lends money to commercial banks.

plural of strain rate

The change in strain (deformation) of a material with respect to time.

To subject (a good) to no value-added tax when sold (but the supplier can still recover VAT attributable to it).