rack-rent
Also rack rent . rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
to exact the highest possible rent for.
to demand rack-rent from.
Origin of rack-rent
1Other words from rack-rent
- rack-renter, noun
Words Nearby rack-rent
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How to use rack-rent in a sentence
Another common term is found in the word Head-rent, of which Gladstonians know no more than of rack-rent.
Ireland as It Is | Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)I won't ask a rack rent, I promise you, and I suppose I could distrain on these tea things and the kettle if it were not paid up.
Bosom Friends | Angela BrazilWill they rack-rent their tenants in such a manner as to deprive them of the means of improving the estate?
Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. I (of 16) | Thomas Hart BentonThere is the same system of rack-rent in the one as in the other, and the same uncertainty in the rate of the Government demand.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II | William SleemanHe and his successors contracted to pay a full or rack-rent of xijd.
A History of Giggleswick School | Edward Allen Bell
British Dictionary definitions for rack-rent
a high rent that annually equals or nearly equals the value of the property upon which it is charged
any extortionate rent
to charge an extortionate rent for (property, land, etc)
Origin of rack-rent
1Derived forms of rack-rent
- rack-renter, noun
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