mates' rates

English

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Noun

mates' rates

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, chiefly in the plural) Discounted prices offered to friends.
   • 2014, Jonathan Harvey, The Girl Who Just Appeared, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 94:

     I looked at him quizzically. ‘It's Rose's place. She says pop in anytime for a hairdo. Mates' rates.’ I must have looked wary because he added, ‘She's good.’ I nodded politely.

Usage notes

• The singular mate's rate is rarer.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: asevelihinta (fi)
• French: prix d’ami m
• German: Freundschaftspreis m
• Polish: ceny dla przyjaciół f pl

Anagrams

• mare's teats, masterates, metatarses