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rent-stabilized

rent-stabilized adjective: charging a rent agreed to by tenants and landlords and mediated by a state.

Adjective

rent-stabilized (not comparable)

  1. Charging a rent agreed to by tenants and landlords and mediated by a state.
    • I paid under the table for my rent-stabilized apartment.
    • Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child...2025 November 5, Zohran Mamdani, “The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Victory Speech”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

Questions about rent-stabilized

What does rent-stabilized mean?
Rent-stabilized means charging a rent agreed to by tenants and landlords and mediated by a state.
What part of speech is rent-stabilized?
Rent-stabilized is an adjective.

Words near rent-stabilized in the dictionary

  1. rent-lowering gunshot
  2. rent-lowering gunshots
  3. rent-seeker
  4. rent-seekers
  5. rent-seeking
  6. rent-stabilized
  7. rent-to-own
  8. Renta
  9. rentabilities
  10. rentability
  11. rentable

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