Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The amount obtained or possible to obtain at rack-rent.
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Examples
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I then sketched the misery of the peasants in the grip of absentee landlords, the turning out on the roadside to die of the mother with new-born babe at her breast, the loss of “all thought of the sanctity of human life when the lives of the dearest are reckoned as less worth than the shillings of overdue rack-rental.”
An Autobiography Besant, Annie 1893
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