单词 | rack-rent |
释义 | rack-rentv. 1. a. transitive. To subject (a person) to the payment of a rack rent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [verb (transitive)] > charge (one) rent > excessive over-rent1586 rent-rack1623 rack-rent1745 1745 Addr. of Thanks to Broad-Bottoms 28 The tenants were rack-rented unnecessarily, because if the old Rents were fairly collected, and honestly apply'd, there would be a Sufficiency..without raising of the Rents. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xiii. 76 It was a maxim with his family..never to rack-rent old tenants, or their descendants. 1784 Edinb. Advertiser 5–9 May 294/2 The old grey-bearded stewards, who had rack-rented the tenants. 1844 W. H. Sleeman Rambles & Recoll. Indian Official I. xxxv. 336 The prince rack-rents the farmer, the farmer rack-rents the cultivator, and the cultivator rack-rents the soil. 1879 H. George Progress & Poverty ii. ii. 105 In large parts of India the English..turned over the soil in absolute possession to hereditary tax-gatherers, who rack-rent the cultivators most mercilessly. 1891 Times 23 May 8/2 As the farmers had been rack-rented so they rack-rented the agricultural labourers. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 96 9 If he rackrents his tenants, the fair rental calculation enables the special courts to relieve them. 1967 K. Giles Death in Diamonds vi. 108 Unfortunate Africans..were being rack-rented under excruciating circumstances at ninety-eight Biddle Street. 1995 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 55 676 A positive value for tenant-right was incompatible with the idea that Irish landlords rack-rented their tenants. b. transitive. To let (property or land) at a rack rent. ΚΠ 1771 Origin Disorders E. India Affairs 3 Mr Hollwell..took the management of the Bazars, and rack-rented them. 1799 H. M. Bird Proposals for Paying off National Debt 46 Lands, also, which are now tithe-free and rack-rented accordingly, will not be worth more than twenty-seven years' purchase. 1818 Edinb. Advertiser 30 Jan. 68/2 The inquiry after farms that are not very much rack-rented has left not many farms unlet. 1885 Times 28 Feb. 9/4 We condemn the O'Briens of Coolquil, for taking a farm which was surrendered by Mr Chadwick for being rack-rented. 1926 Times Dec. 16 7/5 You have a standard rate of 2s. 6d. a week on houses built by large land-owners and to-day worth 15s. a week, as compared with a house which was rack-rented at the time of standardization. 1940 A. H. M. Jones Greek City i i. 19 The land, which was regarded as crown property, was..rack rented in small lots to the natives. 1997 Population & Develop. Rev. 23 703 The older residential buildings in the center were simply rack-rented, predominantly by the same class, to the maximum density for the maximum profit. 2. intransitive. To exact rack rents. ΚΠ 1856 C. J. Lever Martins of Cro' Martin 138 He hunted, and drank, and feasted and rack-rented. 1891 Times 26 May 6/6 He complained that the Government in this matter had been rack-renting. 1961 A. J. Schmidt Yeoman in Tudor & Stuart Eng. 7 Those yeomen who enclosed, drained their fens, rack-rented, and hoarded corn were hardly popular with their less fortunate contemporaries. 1992 J. A. F. Thomson Transformation of Medieval Eng. 33 The lord would be in a position to rack-rent, if there was any demand for land. Derivatives rackˈrentable adj. liable to be charged a rack rent. rare. ΚΠ 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. vi. 175 They were the first ‘tenants at will’..and..were always theoretically rackrentable. 1904 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 10 198 Dependants who, being tenants-at-will and rack-rentable, seriously and permanently altered for the worse the position of the tribes~men. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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