death rate

• (dated) deathrate

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death rate (plural death rates)

2. The number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time (usually per 1000 persons per year when not otherwise specified).

   Alternative form: DR (initialism)

   Synonyms: mortality, mortality rate, MR

   Antonym: birth rate

• Zulu:amanombolo okufa kwabantu

• “death rate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “death rate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.