rating

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   An evaluation of status, especially of financial status.

   They have a poor credit rating.

2. 2
   noun

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

   He has a high chess rating.

3. 3
   noun

   A quantitative measure of the audience of a television program.

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

4. 4
   noun

   A seaman in a warship.

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

5. 5
   noun

   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.

6. 6
   noun

   act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of

7. 7
   noun

   an appraisal of the value of something

8. 8
   noun

   standing or position on a scale