death rate
death rate
Definition
death rate
noun
the number of deaths per year per thousand of population in a given community, area, or group: sometimes other units of time or population are used
death rate
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- standardize: The suitability of different measures of standardized hospital death rates.
- have: Larvae which consume high levels of the pollen do grow poorly and have a higher death rate.
Noun used with modifier
- hospital: The suitability of different measures of standardized hospital death rates.
Adjective modifier
- premature: The number of local authority areas where premature death rates are above the national average has risen by 40 per cent since 1991.
- high: Larvae which consume high levels of the pollen do grow poorly and have a higher death rate.
- annual: Although no comprehensive national statistics have been compiled on annual death rates due to unsafe abortions, the picture is grim.
- low: In both the UK and the USA better access to GPs has been shown to be associated with lower death rates.
Preposition: in
- world: Yet Johannesburg has one of the highest death rates in the world due to HIV and AIDS.
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