ratebuster
English
noun
Definitions
- A worker who works as fast as possible, ignoring the limits on productivity agreed by other workers or by a union.
Etymology
Compound from English rate (scold, appraise, upbraid, berate) + English buster.
Origin
English
buster
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ball-buster English
- berate English
- birthrate English
- bitrate English
- blockbuster English
- brainbuster English
- broncobuster English
- bust English
- buster English
- chartbuster English
- cloudbuster English
- countrate English
- crimebuster English
- cultbuster English
- dambuster English
- derate English
- disrate English
- doorbuster English
- downrate English
- drugbuster English
- eigenrate English
- facebuster English
- fallrate English
- fillrate English
- flowrate English
- gangbuster English
- ghostbuster English
- gutbuster English
- man-rate English
- middlebuster English
- midrate English
- misrate English
- multirate English
- outrate English
- over-rate English
- overrate English
- quackbuster English
- racketbuster English
- ratability English
- ratable English
- rate English
- rateable English
- ratee English
- rateless English
- ratemaker English
- ratemaking English
- ratemeter English
- ratepayer English
- ratepaying English
- rater English
- ratest English
- rateth English
- rerate English
- rodbuster English
- runrate English
- slumpbuster English
- sodbuster English
- spinebuster English
- stressbuster English
- tankbuster English
- thirst-buster English
- transrate English
- trustbuster English
- underrate English
- unionbuster English
- unrate English
- uprate English
- workrate English
- レート Japanese
- rate Middle English
- rate
- bust
- rater
- ratee
- uprate
- berate
- buster
- ratest
- unrate
- rerate
- derate
- rateth
- outrate
- misrate
- ratable
- midrate
- runrate
- disrate
- bitrate
- rateless
- man-rate
- rateable
- flowrate
- downrate
- fillrate
- fallrate
- overrate
- workrate
- over-rate
- transrate
- birthrate
- countrate
- ratemeter
- multirate
- dambuster
- ratepayer
- gutbuster
- underrate
- sodbuster
- eigenrate
- ratemaker
- rodbuster
- gangbuster
- tankbuster
- ratepaying
- facebuster
- doorbuster
- cultbuster
- drugbuster
- ratemaking
- ratability
- ghostbuster
- ball-buster
- slumpbuster
- chartbuster
- blockbuster
- cloudbuster
- quackbuster
- brainbuster
- spinebuster
- unionbuster
- crimebuster
- trustbuster
- broncobuster
- racketbuster
- stressbuster
- middlebuster
- thirst-buster