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quit⋅rent

[kwit-rent]
–noun
rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.

Origin:
1425–75; late ME; see quit 1 , rent 1
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quit·rent   (kwĭt'rěnt')   
n.  A rent paid by a freeman in lieu of the services required by feudal custom.

[Middle English quiterent : quite, free; see quite + rent, rent; see rent1.]
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