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rent strikes

rent strikes is the plural of rent strike.

Meaning of rent strike

Noun

rent strike (plural rent strikes)

  1. A form of social or economic protest in which tenants who rent housing, commercial space, or other property act as a group to refuse to pay their rent until the landlord makes demanded improvements to the property or to the terms of the rental contracts.
    • Detroit Union Plans Rent Strike if Apartment Owners Get 5 Percent Increases.1942 July 11, "Protest Government Rent Control," Ludington Daily News (Michigan, USA), p. 1 (sub-headline) (retrieved 1 Nov 2011)

Questions about rent strikes

What is rent strikes the plural of?
Rent strikes is the plural of rent strike.

Words near rent strikes in the dictionary

  1. rent rolls
  2. rent seck
  3. rent seekers
  4. rent seeking
  5. rent strike
  6. rent strikes
  7. Rent's rule
  8. rent-a-
  9. rent-a-car
  10. rent-a-cars
  11. rent-a-cop

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