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CRIME RATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("crime rate" is a kind of...):
rate (a magnitude or frequency relative to a time unit)
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