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rack rent

NOUN
  1. an extortionate rent

How To Use rack rent In A Sentence

  • They rearranged their estates to create larger tenant farms on rack rents, with a decline in small yeomen farmers with customary tenure or freeholds.
  • Fourthly, the terms of the lease may prohibit letting except at a rack rent.
  • Under its regulations three rents are enumerated -- namely, the _rack rent_ to be extorted from one of a strange tribe; the _fair_ rent from one of the same tribe; and the _stipulated_ rent to be paid equally to either. The Story of Ireland
  • Fourthly, the terms of the lease may prohibit letting except at a rack rent.
  • They rearranged their estates to create larger tenant farms on rack rents, with a decline in small yeomen farmers with customary tenure or freeholds.
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