Definition of "ratepaying" []

• Paying rates or taxes. (adjective)

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• "There was a restricted property qualification for elections to the Boards, based on ownership and ratepaying."
• "The people were alive at a very early date to the importance of improving the roads; and as far back as 1793 an Act was passed at Niagara, then the seat of government, placing the roads under overseers or road-masters, as they were called, appointed by the ratepaying inhabitants at their annual town meetings."
• "| Pages 289, 361 and 374: Spelling of rate-paying and ratepaying not |"