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noun
1A classification or ranking of someone or something based on a comparative assessment of their quality, standard, or performance.
‘the hotel regained its five-star rating’- ‘The same observer assessed team behavior quality ratings and team task performance for all teams.’
- ‘Many of these findings were translated into comparative performance ratings of the twenty-two groups of adjacent suburbs covered by the survey.’
- ‘Photographic evidence of assignments is sometimes very useful to us in order to assess members performance ratings.’
- ‘Its five-star rating demands fine quality and service.’
- ‘Results Performance ratings of targeted competencies at the assessment centre predicted trainer ratings of performance in the job.’
- ‘Instead, pay increases and/or performance bonuses are based primarily on performance ratings.’
- ‘The most common forms of observation based assessment are ratings by supervisors, peers, and patients.’
- ‘Consumers don't base European cars based on quality ratings.’
- ‘Standard & Poor based the rating on a review of publicly available information.’
- ‘Morningstar, the Chicago-based mutual fund research firm, recently gave Ariel's mutual funds its top five-star rating for performance.’
- ‘These figures were similar to their performance ratings that were graded by their supervisors.’
- ‘The ratings you cited are based on computer formulas designed by their inventors to judge performance.’
- ‘Furthermore, advertisements, rankings and ratings issued by fund companies only describe past performance.’
- ‘A course structure questionnaire assessed students' ratings of eight critical areas of course structure.’
- ‘Preliminary ratings are based on design features, operational characteristics and accident risk of a road section.’
- ‘Houston received high satisfaction ratings from respondents for quality of life.’
- ‘Blair is not only interested in boosting his poll ratings.’
- ‘In one study, ethnic minority patients were treated with less analgesia and assigned lower pain ratings than Caucasian patients.’
- ‘He is down ten points among Republicans from his average poll ratings.’
- ‘I wouldn't be surprised if as a result of his Liverpool trip he finds his popularity ratings soaring.’
grade, classification, class, grading, ranking, rank, category, categorization, designation, position, standing, status, placingView synonyms- 1.1ratingsThe estimated audience size of a particular television or radio programme.‘the soap's ratings have recently picked up’
- ‘Broadcast magazine compared ratings for BBC and ITV bulletins before and after the election was called.’
- ‘Week in, week out it is the soaps that dominate the ratings on British television.’
- ‘He was working in the media research industry and he was concerned mostly about television and radio ratings.’
- ‘The criterion that Mr Shier himself acknowledged as fundamental, a rise in ABC ratings, especially in television, was not achieved.’
- ‘Monday night ‘RAW’ rules the cable television ratings with growing numbers.’
- ‘Yes, but what were the television audience ratings?’
- ‘Turns out television ratings for the CBC's coverage of championship curling have been less than stellar.’
- ‘Since 2000, television broadcast ratings for almost all major sports have fallen among male viewers between 12 and 34.’
- ‘These matches have some of the highest ratings on cable television.’
- ‘And a Stern ratings drop affects the radio industry about the same way a similar drop in the Dow would affect the overall economy.’
- ‘For years, the ratings for the televised Emmy Awards have been in freefall.’
- ‘I understand they're trying to boost TV ratings - we all benefit from that.’
- ‘Leading criminal psychologist David Holmes has slammed the increasing use of rape and sex assaults to boost TV soap ratings.’
- ‘Last season's poor TV ratings proved that.’
- ‘Kiely rejected the suggestion that Kellogg's had pulled its support due to the show's poor ratings.’
- ‘The three nightly network newscasts have seen their ratings plummet 44 percent since 1980.’
- ‘And she only came out and left the show when the ratings plummeted.’
- ‘ABC's ratings slumped and it fell to a distant third behind NBC and CBS.’
- ‘If the host doesn't like the competitor or ratings slump the timer will be arbitrarily accelerated.’
- ‘And so, in the absence of any other widely available metric, the Nielsen ratings provided our performance standard.’
- 1.2The value of a property or condition which is claimed to be standard, optimal, or limiting for a substance, material, or device.‘fuel with a low octane rating’
- ‘They vary in size and durometer (the hardness rating of the wheel material, polyurethane).’
- ‘Any material with a Perm rating of less than 1.0 is considered a vapor retarder.’
- ‘Remember, the higher the perm rating of a material, the more moisture can pass through it.’
- ‘A very simple way to find out the speed rating of your current hardware configuration is to use a freeware utility.’
- ‘Fuel economy, emissions ratings and performance are equivalent to the standard wheelbase XJ saloons.’
- ‘Each response was assigned a pressure rating of between one and four and a PPI figure was then calculated for each question.’
- ‘Pet life jackets do not come with buoyancy ratings, as do human life jackets (the Coast Guard requires it).’
- ‘Rods with line-class ratings of 30 lb class or below are what may be described as light-line fishing.’
- ‘Sump pumps are generally sold according to the horsepower rating of the pump motor.’
- ‘This may result in the product failing to meet its load ratings.’
- ‘If you want hot water fast, the FHR rating will be important to you.’
- 1.3Any of the classes into which racing yachts are assigned according to dimensions.‘a masthead boat of similar rating’
- ‘The Taki-Tooo and the other vessels that left the harbor were ‘small passenger vessels,’ a higher Coast Guard licensing rating.’
- ‘Ride improves the likelihood that prospective Sailors will begin their Navy careers in the right rating for them.’
2British A non-commissioned sailor in the navy.
‘the rest of the new crew was made up of naval ratings’- ‘When her funeral took place at Leicester Cathedral on May 23, 1997, Royal Navy ratings acted as pall bearers and a Royal Marines bugler sounded the last post.’
- ‘Further south, the sight of snow had four junior Royal Navy ratings jumping for joy, because WTR Nekisha Seaman and her friends have never seen the white stuff before.’
- ‘Aged 52, Parker was 13 years older than even his Captain, and by far the oldest rating in the Royal Navy still serving afloat.’
- ‘They also hold the enlistment papers for First World War Royal Navy ratings and some Royal Marines.’
- ‘The first batch of 30 naval ratings arrived in March 1939 to operate and guard the receiver and transmitting stations.’
- ‘A senior Naval rating who allowed his fitness to slide over the years believes RN fitness test can be a blessing in disguise.’
- ‘The SEAL community is actually open to every rating in the Navy.’
- ‘At the height of the operation, in June 1944, there were more than 100,000 officers and ratings dedicated to this specialist branch of the Royal Navy.’
- ‘The Admiral wants to see a greater involvement of Leading Hands and Petty Officers in the daily management of junior ratings.’
- ‘This faced some public opposition, with some naval ratings staging the Invergordon Mutiny.’
- ‘If you think you know all of the ratings in our Navy, you better take a closer look at the ratings at the master chief level.’
- ‘A total of around 750 RFA personnel, officers and ratings, all civilian British-registered seafarers, are taking part in Saif Sareea.’
- ‘Paul Philips has won a commendation for saving the life of a young rating caught beneath an aircraft lift in HMS Invincible.’
- ‘In addition, officers and senior ratings, in conjunction with the British Embassy, held a well-attended reception on the Saturday evening.’
- ‘In the afternoon a sporting contest - usually football or cricket - was staged between officers and ratings.’
- ‘Ten minutes later she settled on her beam in just over 30 ft of water, and became a tomb for five officers and 41 ratings.’
- ‘They will have a ship's company of 48, of whom 12 will be officers and 14 senior ratings.’
- ‘A U.S. Coast Guard cutter had transferred a pump and two Coast Guard ratings had jumped aboard with it.’
- ‘The change of plan to take the rating ashore forced the ship's command team to replot a route to anchor to the north-east of the island close to Ned's Beach.’
- ‘Making his way down the gun deck to the sick berth, several ratings saluted him.’
Origin
So named from the position or rating held by a sailor, recorded on a ship's books.
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noun
datedAn angry reprimand.
- ‘a servant getting a rating from his master’
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