The word 'raters' is a correct and usable word in written English.
According to Merriam-Webster, 'raters' is a plural noun that means "one that rates or evaluates" something. It can be used in a variety of contexts, such as in surveys, product reviews, and performance evaluations. Example: The restaurant received high ratings from all of its raters, with many commenting on the exceptional service and delicious food.
But that may be enough to satisfy credit raters.
So if credit raters believe (misguidedly, you understand) that Japan's reform efforts are growing ever more pitiful, they will continue to knock its ratings down another peg from time to time.
Critics argue that the business is riddled with conflicts of interest because the raters are paid for their work by the bond issuers, rather than by investors who actually use the ratings (a change from old railroad-bond days).
For some reason, though, this shortcoming never seems to bother the Street when it needs reasons to buy bonds, only when it needs excuses to sell them.Only one of the charges against the credit raters really sticks: that by centralising ratings in New York or London, they tend to miss developments on the ground.
And methodicalness, which measures the way animals approach things like using tools and making the nests they sleep in, resembles conscientiousness though Dr Freeman's raters found this difficult to assess because such activities are not much available to the chimps in Texas.
Second, the bond raters, accountants, lawyers, regulators, lobbyists, and politicians who aided and abetted in this shell game.
And just as with the credit-raters, the result is often so unsatisfactory as to be useless.
He regards many foreigners in Ukraine as second-raters: "This is hardly a place that attracts high-flyers," he says, and there is something to this.
A shame: faster privatisation would ease the budget deficit, shore up the rand, and perhaps persuade credit-raters to take a sunnier view of South Africa.
It is the revenge of the B-team: an assembly led by posturing second-raters dedicated, in their every waking moment, to grabbing new powers at the expense of national governments.The parliament is elected but not truly accountable.
He ladles praise on correspondents only to dismiss them in letters to others as gorgons or third-raters.
