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RACK RENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rack rent mean?
• RACK RENT (noun)
The noun RACK RENT has 1 sense:
1. an extortionate rent
Familiarity information: RACK RENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An extortionate rent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("rack rent" is a kind of...):
rent (a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service)
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