rating
English
Pronunciation
Noun
rating (plural ratings)
- A position on a scale.
- An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.
- They have a poor credit rating.
- A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.
- He has a high chess rating.
- A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
- 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:
- A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.
- (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
- (nautical, British) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.
- In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.
- 1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149:
- Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope
Derived terms
Translations
position on a scale
evaluation of status
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mark that refers to the ability of something
seaman in a warship
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Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈrɛj.tiŋk/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛjtiŋk
- Syllabification: ra‧ting
Noun
rating m inan (related adjective ratingowy)
- (finance) credit rating (estimate used by creditors to determine maximum amount of credit)
- popularity rating (evaluation of status)
Declension
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁɐj.tĩɡ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁej.tĩɡ/
- (Central Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁej.tĩɡ/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈʁe.tĩɡ/
Noun
rating m (plural ratings)
- (finance) credit rating (an evaluation of status, especially of financial status)
- agências de rating ― credit rating agencies
- (television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)
Romanian
Declension
Declension of rating
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈreitin/ [ˈrei̯.t̪ĩn]
- Rhymes: -eitin
- IPA(key): /ˈratin/ [ˈra.t̪ĩn]
- Rhymes: -atin
- Syllabification: ra‧ting
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