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Definition: Rack-rent
Rack-rent
\Rack"-rent`\ (r[a^]k"r[e^]nt`), n.
A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it;
an excessive or unreasonably high rent. --Blackstone.
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Rack-rent
\Rack"-rent`\, v. t.
To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
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