rapid / quick / speed / rate / soon / almost / to make haste / clever / sharp (of knives or wits) / forthright / plainspoken / gratified / pleased / pleasant

speed; rate; velocity; (music) tempo

to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade

large and small / size / adults and children / consideration of seniority / at any rate

exchange rate

fine / good / first-rate

refresh rate (of a screen)

yield rate (in manufacturing)

power (rate of doing work, measured in watts)

can be rated as / can be said to be

second best person / second-rate person

first-rate / excellent (loanword from Japanese 一番, ichiban)

second-rate / second-tier

rate of pay; piece rate

to limit the flow of passengers, customers or vehicles / to limit the spread of sensitive content / (electricity) current limiting / (computer networking) rate limiting

birth rate

interest rate

(archaic) agate / (bound form) standard weight used with a balance scale / number / (computing) code / (clothing) size / yard (unit of length) / (coll.) kilometers per hour (informal misuse of "yard" to mean kph in speed references) / (coll.) to pile up; to stack / classifier for matters, items, situations etc (esp. when indicating whether they are the same or different, as in 不是一碼事｜不是一码事 "not the same thing") / (Tw, HK) (finance) unit of 25 basis points (i.e. a 0.25% change in interest rate)

(finance) to raise interest rates

hit rate / scoring rate

heart rate

incidence of a disease / disease rate

rate of infection (usu. of a disease)

to put a roof (on a building) / to cap the roof (finishing a building project) / fig. to put a ceiling (on spending, prize, ambition etc) / to top off / fig. to reach the highest point (of growth, profit, interest rates) / to stop growing (of plant bud or branch)

click-through rate (for websites or online advertisements)

third-rate / inferior

click-through rate (CTR) (Internet)

to appraise at the current rate

(computing) transmission rate; transmission speed

to stay level (of exchange rate, market share etc) / fair / unbiased

flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic / (hydrology) discharge / data traffic; network traffic; website traffic; mobile data

first rate / top rank / number one

city council rates / municipal taxes

to lower the interest rate

(of prices, rates etc) to remain high

(bound form) ratio; rate; proportion

top-notch; first-rate

employment rate

(med.) survival rate / (med.) recovery rate

transmission rate

frame rate

mortality rate

radiation dose rate

flow speed / rate of flow

average annual growth rate

to compare prices; to compare offers / price ratio; price parity; rate of exchange

computing power / hash rate (digital currency mining)

acceptance rate; admission rate

return on investment / rate of return

second-class; second-rate

currency exchange rate

(finance) to raise interest rates

to reduce the tax rate

survival rate / rate of success

tax rate

unemployment rate

to speed up; to accelerate / (economics) growth rate

savings rate

rate of progress

opening exchange rate

first rate / top class / excellent

first-rate / of the highest order / high-class / excellent / superior

interest rate

growth rate

literacy rate

to grade (a student's work); to rate (sb's performance); to give a score

seat occupancy rate; percentage of available seats that are filled (in a theater, cinema, restaurant etc)

economic growth rate

specified (capacity, output etc) / rated (capacity, output etc)

exchange rate

base rate (e.g. interest rate set by central bank)

heartbeat; heart rate / (fig.) emotionally affected; aroused (of desire, emotion, interest etc)

discount rate

superb / first-rate / (of officials in imperial times) the highest rank

to drift about; to move unsteadily / (fig.) to fluctuate; to rise and fall; to be changeable / (economics) (of a currency or rate etc) to float

speed; rate

inflation rate

rate of occurrence

growth rate (esp. in economics)

discount rate

earnings rate / earnings yield (finance)

star rating / top-class / highly rated

payment by the hour; time-rate wages (opposite: piece-rate wage 計件工資｜计件工资)

(coll.) top-notch; first-rate; outstanding

first-rate / top-notch

to maintain an 8% annual growth rate of the GDP (PRC policy)

interest rate

basic rate (as in ISDN)

(sports) win rate / winning percentage / probability of winning

birth rate

growth rate

second class / second-rate

difference in exchange rates in different regions

to lower interest rates

rate of deprecation

erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)

poverty rate

high interest rate / usurious

lending interest rate

excellent; first-rate; top-notch; superb