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单词 rent-rack
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rent-rackv.

Forms: 1600s rent-racke.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rent n.1, rack v.1
Etymology: < rent n.1 + rack v.1, probably after rent-racker n. Compare slightly earlier rent-racking n., rent-racking adj., and slightly later rent-racked adj. Compare also later rack-rent v.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To subject (a person) to the payment of a very high or extortionate rent; = rack-rent v.
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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
1623 R. Carpenter Conscionable Christian 114 Take not hence liberty, as some doe, to pay no debts, to put money to Vsury, to rent-racke thy Tenants.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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