Sentence examples for rate basically from inspiring English sources

(Libor is the London interbank offered rate, basically what banks pay on loans to each other).

The Fed uses its independence to set the short-term interest rate, basically at zero these days.

American Express defines typical business fares as the standard rate "basically the sticker price, the lowest economy-class fare available" at close to last-minute purchase, said Don Munro, an American Express spokesman.

He stood firm on China's management of its currency, repeating the now standard line that Beijing intends to keep the exchange rate "basically stable," even as he promised to move toward greater flexibility down the road.

The People´s Bank of China will further enable market to play a fundamental role in resource allocation, promote a more balanced BOP account, maintain the RMB exchange rate basically stable at an adaptive and equilibrium level, and achieve the macroeconomic and financial stability in China.It will be interesting to see how this changes the tone in Washington, and at the G20 summit.

The optical generation rate basically represents the number of photo-generated charge carriers per unit volume and unit time.

The rate in turn affects so-called swap rates – basically the cost of getting fixed-term funding on the money markets for lenders.

"The last time people tried to set rates basically was in the Soviet Union, and that didn't work out very well," he said last week.

"The last time people tried to set rates, basically, was in the Soviet Union, and that didn't work out very well.

They buy bandwidth from Sprint at wholesale rates, basically renting sprints cell towers for their customers.

Then in 2001, we had the dot-com bubble and the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates basically to 1% by 2002.