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death rate
noun
the number of deaths per unit, usually 1000, of population in a given place and time.
Origin:
1855–60
1855–60
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Death rate
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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World English Dictionary
| death rate | |
| —n | |
| Also called (esp US): mortality rate the ratio of deaths in a specified area, group, etc, to the population of that area, group, etc | |
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
death rate n.
The ratio of total deaths to total population in a specified community or area over a specified period of time; often expressed as the number of deaths per 1,000 of the population per year. Also called fatality rate, mortality rate.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
death rate
in demographic usage, the frequency of death in a population
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