Usually means: Initial probability ignoring specific conditions.
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  1. base rate: Merriam-Webster
  2. base rate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. base rate: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. base rate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  11. base rate: FreeDictionary.org
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  14. base rate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  15. base rate: Wiktionary

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  3. base rate: Finance-Glossary.com
  4. Base rate: Financial dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (base rate)

noun:  (finance) A benchmark interest rate, from which other interest rates are calculated; a policy rate.
noun:  (finance, UK) Especially, the interest rate at which the Bank of England lends money to commercial banks.
noun:  (sciences) The background rate of occurrence of any phenomenon, which informs any logical analysis of its rate of occurrence under any subset of circumstances; especially, the proportion of individuals in a population who have a certain characteristic (e.g., trait, experience, circumstance), irrespective of any treatment effects in a treatment group of a scientific study.

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