Going Rate

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Going Rate

Informal; the current or prevailing price, especially of a major asset like real estate. See also: Spot price.

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THE going rate for pay rises is "firmly stuck" at 2 per cent, although public sector workers are receiving less, a new study has shown.

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The going rate for pay rises is "firmly stuck" at 2%, although public sector workers are receiving less, a new study has shown.

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Mr Hester claims that when he was hired, he told his employers that he would be "content to be paid whatever the going rate to do similar jobs elsewhere was".

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Surely the going rate for a top goalie is the going rate, no matter who you're dealing with?

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It was hard to move resin around," she says, adding that trucking companies were waiting for calls from FEMA--at twice the going rate per mile--and putting their regular customers off.

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Many of Cejka's hospital clients, especially academic institutions that tend to offer lower salaries than private hospitals and clinics, are surprised to learn that the $150,000 to $180,000 they initially budget to recruit a pediatric anesthesiologist falls well short of the going rate.

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What allegedly rattled the chemical market was that the deal was 2[cent]/lb below the going rate, and that it was posted in public.

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If he reckons, for example, that he spends five hours a week on gardening, for which our going rate is pounds 6 an hour, then that amounts to pounds 30 (5 x pounds 6).

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They initially got the club for nothing and since Ray Ransom left have declined to pay the going rate for anything.