rent : Idioms & Phrases

• . See Blackmail, n., 3.
• . See Blackmail, 3.

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• rent paid in corn.

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• (Eng. Law), a rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress. Bouvier.

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• noun the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
  rent.
  

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• (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a conveyance in fee simple.

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• in Scotland, rent payable before a crop is gathered.

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• rent which is paid in advance; foregift.

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• noun payment for the right to occupy and improve a piece of land
  

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• rent paid for the privilege of building on another man's land.

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• the rent of a life estate; rent or property to which one is entitled during one's life.

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• noun very low or nominal rent
  

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• noun an extortionate rent
  

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Rack"-rent` noun

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1. A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

Rack"-rent` transitive verb

Definitions

1. To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.

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• rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone.

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• (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it, Bouvier.

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• noun a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner
  

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• verb grant the services of or the temporary use of, for a fee
  farm out; hire out.
  
  • We rent out our apartment to tourists every year
  • He hired himself out as a cook

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• a list or account of rents or income; a rental.

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• (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statue 4 George II. c. 28.

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• (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; so called from such service being incident to it.

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• noun a rented car
  u-drive; car rental; self-drive; you-drive; hire car.
  
  • she picked up a hire car at the airport and drove to her hotel

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• adjective satellite complimentary; without payment of rent
  
  • with the job came a rent-free apartment
• adverb without paying rent
  
  • I can live here rent-free

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• noun a rebate on rent given by a local government authority
  

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• noun a register of rents; includes the names of tenants and the amount of rent they pay
  

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• . See Vicontiels.

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• (a) (Eng. Law) Formerly, rent payable in silver; opposed to black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3. (b) A rent, or duty, of eight pence, payable yearly by every tinner in Devon and Cornwall to the Duke of Cornwall, as lord of the soil. Prov. Eng.
• a quitrent when paid in silver; opposed to black rent.

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