poor rate
English history a rate or tax levied by parishes for the relief or support of the poor
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How to use poor rate in a sentence
In future years the poor-rate (so-called) will include, in addition to these, all other rates levyable by the Corporation.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham | Thomas T. Harman and Walter ShowellThe poor rate is no longer made at the Vestry; the church rate is a thing of the past; and what is then left?
The Hills and the Vale | Richard JefferiesThe expenses are payable out of the poor rate by the overseers on the precept of the parish council.
The parish, the unit on which the pauper had claims, meant the persons upon whom the poor-rate was assessed.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenOui, Curey, it is Solomon says that, and they must have had a heavy poor-rate in his day to make him say so.
Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) | Charles Lever
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