poor rates

1. 1.

   a local tax for the relief of the poor

   Broaderrates

   United Kingdom

Questions about poor rates

What does poor rates mean?

poor rates means "a local tax for the relief of the poor".

Is poor rates a common word?

poor rates 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.