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rack rents

rack rents is the plural of rack rent.

Meaning of rack rent

Noun

rack rent (countable and uncountable, plural rack rents)

  1. (formal) The full rental value of a property, including both land and improvements, if it were subject to an immediate open market rent review.
  2. (historical, informal) An excessive rent.
    • Number 10 was a prosperous-looking young Italian, Signor Tomelli, who possibly had plenty of money from rackrents in Milan and would probably play a dashing and foolish game. He might lose his temper and make a scene.1953, Ian Fleming, “The High Table”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 73

Forms of rack rents

alternative formrack-rents
alternative formrackrents

Questions about rack rents

What is rack rents the plural of?
Rack rents is the plural of rack rent.

Words near rack rents in the dictionary

  1. rack railway
  2. rack railways
  3. rack rate
  4. rack rates
  5. rack rent
  6. rack rents
  7. rack rod
  8. rack rods
  9. rack time
  10. rack unit
  11. rack units

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