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mates' rates

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mates' rates

  1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, informal, chiefly in the plural) Discounted prices offered to friends.
    • 2014, Jonathan Harvey, The Girl Who Just Appeared, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 94:
      I looked at him quizzically. ‘It's Rose's place. She says pop in anytime for a hairdo. Mates' rates.’ I must have looked wary because he added, ‘She's good.’ I nodded politely.

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