rate-cap

rate-cap
rate-caps, rate-capping, rate-capped
1) VERB: usu passive In Britain, when a local council was rate-capped, the government prevented it from increasing local taxes called rates, in order to force the council to reduce its spending or make it more efficient.

[be V-ed] Notts County Council is to cut 200 jobs in a bid to escape being rate-capped.

Derived words:
rate-capping N-UNCOUNT

The project is seriously threatened by rate-capping.

2) N-COUNT A rate cap is a limit placed by the government on the amount of interest that banks or credit card companies can charge their customers. [AM]

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