rent : Idioms & Phrases


Black rent

  • . See Blackmail, n., 3.
  • . See Blackmail, 3.
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Corn rent

  • rent paid in corn.
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Dry rent

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

  • 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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Fee farm rent

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

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

  • rent which is paid in advance; foregift.
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Ground rent

  • 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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Life rent

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

  • noun very low or nominal rent
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rack rent

  • noun an extortionate rent
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rack-rent

Rack"-rent` noun
Definitions
  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 arrear

  • rent in arrears; unpaid rent. Blackstone.
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Rent charge

  • (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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rent collector

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

  • 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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Rent roll

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

  • (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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Rent service

  • (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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rent-a-car

  • 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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rent-free

  • 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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rent-rebate

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

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

  • . See Vicontiels.
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White rent

  • (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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