Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is subjected to the payment of rack-rent.
- noun One who rack-rents his tenants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is subjected to paying rack-rent.
- noun One who exacts rack-rent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who is subjected to paying
rack rent . - noun One who
exacts rack rent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But he is only just and fair, which, in the ethics of Irish agrarianism, is equivalent to being a rack-renter and a tyrant.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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The most dramatic point in the affair is when the open and indecent rack-renter turns on the decent young man of means and proves to him that he is equally guilty, that he also can only grind his corn by grinding the faces of the poor.
George Bernard Shaw 1905
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But he is only just and fair, which, in the ethics of Irish agrarianism, is equivalent to being a rack-renter and a tyrant.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Hussey, S M 1904
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The military triumph of the rack-renter or the Whiteboy would be the happiest issue of the strife.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Thomas Osborne Davis 1829
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Rutun Sing, the father of Seobuksh, is said to have been a greater rack-renter, rebel, and robber than his son is, and together they have injured the estate a good deal, and reduced it from a rent-roll of one hundred thousand to one of forty.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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I believe, sir, that on this Commission the real source of evil will never be traced; we shall hear of the grinding middleman and the rack-renter, but nothing dangerous to these magnates, or to the trade-system itself -- unless ---- "She paused, and left silence to carry her message.
King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties Laurence Housman 1912
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