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| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| base rate | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (Brit) the rate of interest used by individual commercial banks as a basis for their lending rates |
| 2. | informal (Brit) the rate at which the Bank of England lends to the discount houses, which effectively controls the interest rates charged throughout the banking system |
| 3. | statistics the average number of times an event occurs divided by the average number of times on which it might occur |