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Definition of "ratepayers" []

  • Plural form of ratepayer. (noun)

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Use "ratepayers" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "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 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."