Definitions for rack-rent

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Spelling: [rak-rent]
IPA: /ˈrækˌrɛnt/

Rack-Rent is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 242 anagrams from letters in rack-rent (-aceknrrt).

Definitions for rack-rent

noun

  1. Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.

verb (used with object)

  1. to exact the highest possible rent for.
  2. to demand rack-rent from.

Origin of rack-rent

First recorded in 1600-10

Examples for rack-rent

He and his successors contracted to pay a full or rack-rent of xijd.

Will they rack-rent their tenants in such a manner as to deprive them of the means of improving the estate?

Another common term is found in the word Head-rent, of which Gladstonians know no more than of rack-rent.

Thus, how miserable is the condition of the peasants in Russia, of the Irish "rack-rent" tenants!

There 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.

Those who carry snuff-boxes are only his tenants; and hold them merely by virtue of a rack-rent, under him.

Word Value for rack-rent
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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