Look up: Rack-rent


  1. rack rent
    [n] - an extortionate rent
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=rack%20rent

  2. Rack rent
    A market rent usually only revised upwards.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20698

  3. Rack rent
    Full market rent. Contrast Ground rent.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20912

  4. rack rent
    noun an extortionate rent
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=rack%20rent

  5. Rack-rent
    Rack-rent denotes two different concepts: The second definition is equivalent to the economic rent of the land plus interest on capital improvements plus depreciation and maintenance -- the normal market rent of a property—and is not inherently excessive or extortionate. Also, this may be differe...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack-rent

  6. Rack-rent
    Rack'-rent` (-rĕnt`) noun A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/3

  7. Rack-rent
    Rack'-rent` transitive verb To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/3

  8. Rack-rent
    • (n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. • (v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/rack-rent/

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