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  • noun Plural form of ratepayer.

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Examples

  • Top officials from the Department of Co-operative Governance and dissenting ratepayers from the National Taxpayers 'Union (NTU) - who are boycotting rate payments in about 40 municipalities across the country - are expected to meet today to thrash out their differences.

    IOL: News 2010

  • For instance, it would be quite inequitable and absurd that the City should assess a sewerage system three or four years prior to the time the ratepayers were allowed to drain into it.

    The City Planning Project 1929

  • The public school has not infrequently Roman Catholics as members of its school boards, and Roman Catholics as teachers even in districts where the ratepayers are almost wholly Protestants.

    North-West Autonomy 1905

  • Perhaps the taxpayers (aka ratepayers) who supplied the funds to build Zion in the first place should reclaim their property and hire a company like NRG to handle the refurbishment and plant operation.

    Atomic Insights Blog 2009

  • Mayor Reg Kidd was one of many councillors who vocally opposed the idea of ratepayers taking care of councillors 'bills.

    Central Western Daily 2008

  • "There is no apparent benefit to New York ratepayers, which is important.

    New York Regulators Reject Entergy Spinoff Mark Peters 2010

  • "There is no apparent benefit to New York ratepayers, which is important.

    New York Regulators Reject Entergy Spinoff Mark Peters 2010

  • "There is no apparent benefit to New York ratepayers, which is important.

    New York Regulators Reject Entergy Spinoff Mark Peters 2010

  • Financing for the new solar projects would come from electricity ratepayers, meaning that power bills might rise slightly at first, Keough said.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Enterprise: Kyle Alsp 2009

  • What the industry wants is to be able to phase this in over a longer period of time so as not to pound the ratepayers (you and me) and/or the stockholders.

    Think Progress » Duke’s Jim Rogers leaves Chamber of Commerce board after climate fight. 2010

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