rater
noun
rat·er
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Definition of rater
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: one having a specified rating or class
—usually used in combination first-rater
Examples of rater in a Sentence
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Investors hope that allowing the global raters to operate could help improve the quality of the local ratings industry, which has long been criticized for being overly lenient with debtors. — Shen Hong, WSJ, "S&P Rating Is Landmark for Chinese Bond Market," 11 July 2019 Calhoun County Controller Kelli Scott said going with only S&P allowed the county to save costs associated with paying another rater. — Gunjan Banerji And Heather Gillers, WSJ, "U.S. Cities Look to Shed Ratings While Taking On More Debt," 19 Dec. 2018 And even when other charity raters have tried to come up with better metrics, overhead has continued to get a lot of airtime. — Kelsey Piper, Vox, "One of the most frequently used criteria for judging a charity is also one of the worst," 27 Nov. 2018 China, whose sovereign rating from the worldâs largest credit raters is three or four notches below that of the U.S., is generally seen as having very little default risk, thanks to its large stash of foreign reserves and trade surplus. — Manju Dalal, WSJ, "Chinaâs $3 Billion Bond Sale Defies Global Markets Slump," 11 Oct. 2018 Finally, Gilbertâs team prepared hundreds of mock research proposals, which were designedâand verified by independent ratersâto range from ethical to ambiguous to unethical. — Helen Shen, Scientific American, "The Despondent Mind: Are Our Brains Wired for Doom and Gloom?," 28 June 2018 All the major political race raters and CNN put this contest in the solid Democratic column. — Harry Enten, CNN, "Senate races in swing states like Virginia make it clear: This is a Democratic year," 12 June 2018 Apocalypse Later Turnaround firms, credit raters and distressed-debt specialists have been forecasting a default spike for the past two years, only to see the apocalypse repeatedly rescheduled. — Cecile Gutscher, Bloomberg.com, "With Little Distress to Feast On, Here's How Vulture Funds Cope," 16 May 2018 The surveys, Wikipedia, and additional raters are just going to make certain problems less visible. — Renee Diresta, WIRED, "Up Next: A Better Recommendation System," 11 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rater.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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