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Definition of Ratepayers
1. ratepayer [n] - See also: ratepayer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratepayers
Literary usage of Ratepayers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"He said municipal voters, and not ratepayers, because, unfortunately, the two
things were not by any means synonymous ; the largest ratepayers, as a rule, ..."
2. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"The Tories declared that of ratepayers alone a majority against the Charter.
This Government inquiry to be held—two C( ers coming down to Birmingham in the ..."
3. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1908)
"A ratepayers' Democracy To sum up succinctly either the real constitution or the
administrative achievements of the Corporation of the City of London ..."
4. English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations by Sidney Webb (1908)
"A ratepayers' Democracy To sum up succinctly either the real constitution or the
administrative achievements of the Corporation of the City of London ..."
5. Pratt's Law of Highways: (5 & 6 Will. 4, Cap. 50, 25 & 26 Vict. Cap. 61, 27 by Thomas Clement Sneyd Kynnersley, John Tidd Pratt (1865)
"In other places under the jurisdiction of a board ratepayers. Of improvement
commissioners where all or part of AS to mm- XIII. ..."
6. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"I Jd that, where thirty-seven ratepayers attended the meeting, ... ROCHFORT CLARKE
moved for a rule calling upon the ratepayers of the parish of Eynsham, ..."
7. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1880)
"that eloquence we so often hear loud in its denunciation of School Boards brought
to bear upon the ratepayers themselves. I do not believe public opinion is ..."
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