rated

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past simple and past participle of

to judge the value or character of someone or something:

How do you rate him as a football player?

She is rated very highly by the people she works for.

informal "What do you think of her as a singer?" "I don't really rate her (= I do not think that she is very good)."

I rate cars as one of the worst polluters of the environment.

[ + obj + noun ] On a scale of one to ten, I'd rate his book a five.

Traffic accidents are so frequent that they don't rate a mention (= are not considered to be worth reporting) in the newspaper unless a lot of people are killed.

to be considered to be something of a particular quality:

That rates as the worst film I've ever seen.

In Britain in the past, a building was rated to decide how much local tax the owner should pay.