Term: rates: a local tax on property (usually used in the plural)
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: notochord: a flexible rodlike structure that forms the supporting axis of the body in the lowest chordates and lowest vertebrates and in embryos of higher vertebrates
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: centripetal force: the inward force on a body moving in a curved path around another body
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: cephalosporin: one of several broad spectrum antibiotic substances obtained from fungi and related to penicillin (trade names Mefoxin); addition of side chains has produced semisynthetic antibiotics with greater antibacterial activity
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: double: a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: prate: idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: plains pocket gopher: gopher of chiefly grasslands of central North America
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: spoonfeeding: teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: sandwort: loosely matted plant with moss-like foliage studded with tiny starry four-petaled white blossoms; mountains of central and southern Europe
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: hypsography: the scientific study of the earth's configuration above sea level (emphasizing the measurement of land altitudes relative to sea level)
Broader: charge: financial liabilities (such as a tax) | Unrelated: public school: a tuition free school in the United States supported by taxes and controlled by a school board