Usually means: Excessive rent for property use.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word rack-rent:

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  1. rack-rent: Merriam-Webster
  2. rack-rent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. rack-rent, rack-rent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rack-rent: Wordnik
  5. rack-rent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. rack-rent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. rack-rent: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Rack-rent, rack-rent: Dictionary.com
  9. Rack-rent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Rack-rent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. rack-rent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Rack-rent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. rack-rent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. Rack-rent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. rack-rent: FreeDictionary.org
  16. rack-rent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. rack-rent: Wiktionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of rack rent [(law, formal) The full rental value of a property, including both land and improvements, if it were subject to an immediate open market rent review.]

Similar:
quit rent, quit-rent, coat-rack, hat-rack, nerve-rack, rust bucket, hatrack, nerve wrack, lock-up, rakeoff, more...

Types:
exorbitant, usurious, extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, disproportionate, more...

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Similar:
quit rent, quit-rent, coat-rack, hat-rack, nerve-rack, rust bucket, hatrack, nerve wrack, lock-up, rakeoff, more...

Types:
exorbitant, usurious, extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, disproportionate, more...



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