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• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹeɪtɪŋ/, [ˈɹeɪɾɪŋ]

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ

rating

1. present participle and gerund of rate

rating (plural ratings)

1. A position on a scale.
2. An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.

   They have a poor credit rating.

   • 2015 September 30, Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, “How the Better Business Bureau rakes in millions”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     A self-proclaimed source of mediation and unbiased ratings of millions of businesses across the country, the BBB receives the majority of its revenue from membership fees paid by hundreds of thousands of companies. […] But through its months-long investigation of the BBB, CNNMoney found that this rating system – a key part of what the organization’s reputation is built on – is seriously flawed, with more than 100 companies in hot water with government agencies receiving A ratings

3. A number, letter, or other mark that refers to the ability of something.

   He has a high chess rating.

4. A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.
   • 1961 May 9, Newton N. Minow, Television and the Public Interest:

     A rating, at best, is an indication of how many people saw what you gave them.

5. (nautical) A seaman in a warship.
   • 2014, BBC News, Huge Russian warship fascinates French in Saint-Nazaire‎^[2]:

     Some 400 Russian ratings are living in the western French port, awaiting delivery of their controversial new command-and-control ship, the Vladivostok.

6. (nautical, UK) An enlisted seaman not a commissioned officer or warrant officer.

   In the Royal Navy the ratings, in order, are: ordinary seaman, able seaman, leading seaman, petty officer and chief petty officer.

   • 1950, Winston S. Churchill, “The Hinge of Fate”, in The Second World War, volume 4, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 149:

     Fifty officers and seven hundred and fifty ratings from the two British ships were picked up by the Japanese, together with the survivors from the Pope

• Gartin, Tigran, gratin, taring, tringa

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛj.tiŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛjtiŋk
• Syllabification: ra‧ting

rating m inan (related adjective ratingowy)

1. (finance) credit rating (estimate used by creditors to determine maximum amount of credit)
2. popularity rating (evaluation of status)

• “rating”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[3] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “rating”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[4] (in Polish)

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

rating m (plural ratings)

1. (finance) credit rating (an evaluation of status, especially of financial status)

   agências de rating ― credit rating agencies

2. (television) rating (a quantitative measure of the audience of a television program)

• “rating”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “rating”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Unadapted borrowing from English rating.

rating n (plural ratinguri)

1. rating

• IPA^(key): /ˈreitin/ [ˈrei̯.t̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -eitin
• IPA^(key): /ˈratin/ [ˈra.t̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -atin
  • Syllabification: ra‧ting

rating m (plural ratings)

1. (nautical) class (of boat)
2. (television) popularity rating

• “rating”, in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas [Panhispanic Dictionary of Uncertainties] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Royal Spanish Academy; Association of Academies of the Spanish Language, 2023, →ISBN
• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “rating”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA