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rent-controlled

rent-controlled adjective: subject to rent control.

Adjective

rent-controlled (not comparable)

  1. Subject to rent control.
    • ‘I have no money,’ she said simply. ‘This apartment is rent-controlled.’2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 288

Questions about rent-controlled

What does rent-controlled mean?
Rent-controlled means subject to rent control.
What part of speech is rent-controlled?
Rent-controlled is an adjective.

Words near rent-controlled in the dictionary

  1. rent-a-quotes
  2. rent-a-thug
  3. rent-a-thugs
  4. rent-a-womb
  5. rent-a-wombs
  6. rent-controlled
  7. rent-free
  8. rent-lowering gunshot
  9. rent-lowering gunshots
  10. rent-seeker
  11. rent-seekers

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