| 单词 | house farming |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse farming house farming n. now historical a system whereby a person is allowed, on payment of a fixed fee to the landlord or landowner, to collect and keep the rents from a house or houses.House farming often resulted in rack-renting and the multiple occupancy of residences intended for a single family, and was widely criticized by social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th cent. ΚΠ 1880 Med. Times & Gaz. 2 Oct. 420/1 The chief object is to obtain a remedy for the excessive rents charged to the working classes under the house-farming system. 1887 Daily News 16 Mar. 2/5 House farming is admittedly a trade. 1911 Times 8 Sept. 8/5 House farming prevails in many of the densely crowded poor parts of London—a system whereby many families live in the same house, or..where a family rents only one room. 1987 P. Williams in N. Thrift & P. Williams Class & Space vi. 192 Land became valuable for its development value, especially for ‘house farming’. A whole industry of owners, intermediaries and agents grew up around the building and market allocation of dwellings. < as lemmas |
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