"Rate": Britspeak only?

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

>
> Charlie, your example sentences work for me. And there's "to
> low-rate" in B= E (and in other dialets?), with the meaning
> "to insult."
>
> -Wilson
>
I've heard "low rent" as a synonym for "low rate" in other contexts.
Has it been verbified as well?

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