plate rack

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   a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed

   Broaderrack

Questions about plate rack

What does plate rack mean?

plate rack means "a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed".

Is plate rack a common word?

plate rack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.