The phrase "a bulk rate" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in contexts related to shipping, mailing, or purchasing where a lower price is offered for buying in large quantities.
Example: "The company offers a bulk rate for orders over 100 units, making it more cost-effective for retailers."
Alternatives: "volume discount" or "wholesale rate".
Buyers were told that they were getting a bulk rate.
In December, Saveology, a consumer comparison Web site for household utilities, purchased 100,000 ticket vouchers at a bulk rate from the Nets.
For the last 20 years or so, the building has negotiated a bulk rate for cable services at prices that are considerably lower than the provider's retail rates.
For a couple of weeks, it was as if the 7-foot-2 Luc Longley had been stamped with a bulk rate and shipped to the end of the bench upon his return from injury.
The lowest price that any other agency or government has negotiated, Dr. Berkley said, is the $13 paid by the Pan American Health Organization, which has a bulk rate for Latin American countries.
This season, he Nets have offered free tickets to unemployed fans who offered their résumés for job placement; announced that companies can enter a basketball tournament, with the winner receiving free sponsorships for the first two months of next season; and sold tickets at a bulk rate to a Web site that offers comparison pricing for household utilities.
The messaging engine will send messages through a gateway interface to enable them to be sent to all participants on any Australian phone network at no cost to the participant and at a bulk-rate cost to the study.
And while a cable company may justify a lower bulk rate for shareholders based upon the co-op's guarantee of payment (or the co-op's pledge of some other benefit to the company), Mr. Sokolski said that he doubted that this would be enough to make shareholders and nonpurchasing tenants "dissimilar" as cable subscribers.
Mr. Edwards's campaign bought books -- the campaign would not say how many -- from the publisher, Simon & Schuster, at a standard bulk rate.
We used a Ga deposition rate equivalent to a bulk growth rate of GaAs of 300 nm/h and a temperature of 820°C, measured with a pyrometer.
Nucleation was not specifically modeled, and the rate constant was calibrated as a bulk average rate (4.2 × 10-10 mol/s) incorporating surface area effects.
