The word 'rater' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means someone who assigns a numerical or qualitative value to something or someone. Example: The company hired a team of experienced raters to evaluate the quality of their products before releasing them to the market.
Britain's opposition Conservatives have promised to defend its AAA rating.In this section Grand Pru Back from the Fed The grim rater Race to the bottom Cap in hand A FAB idea On deaf ears ReprintsOver the long term the ratings of most developed nations have been remarkably stable.
Skytrax, an influential rater of airlines, gives just three stars out of five to America's main carriers, putting them on a par with Papua New Guinea's national airline, Air Niugini.
This is the approach taken by Fund Research, a British firm recently acquired by Standard & Poor's, one of the world's two biggest credit-rating agencies and half-owner of the Taiwan Ratings Corporation, at present the only mutual fund rater on the island.
This month the SEC recognised AM Best, which specialises in the insurance industry, as a nationally acceptable rating agency (Dominion Bond Rating Service, a Canadian firm, is the fifth officially sanctioned rater).
AIG will be left with a string of other businesses, but none as distinctive or so plugged in to the world economy's most vibrant region.In this section Grand Pru Back from the Fed The grim rater Race to the bottom Cap in hand A FAB idea On deaf ears ReprintsBut AIG will also take its biggest step yet toward becoming a normal company again.
As Daniel Kahneman explains here, we give too much weight to a) the peaks and b) the ends of periods, rater than logically evaluating their entire duration.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson has usually been patronised as a second-rater who bungled the transmission of Dickinson's work by allowing too much editorial tampering, a man whose bourgeois conventionality tried to silence a woman poet's true voice.
One of the most famous of these was HMS Victory, a 100-gun first-rater that served as the flagship of Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
All of which, I suspect, on the Amisian scale of values, makes me just as much of a dullard and hapless second-rater as poor Mr Corbyn.
He did not pretend to dictate policy in the Bolshevik style of Yuri Grigorovich, an imperious second-rater who ruled the company by decree for three decades, from 1964 to 1995.
Hamsun was not some bitter second-rater.
