rack-rent
Speech parts
1. rack-rent - Noun
2. rack-rent - Verb
Meaning
A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent.
To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlternative names
rack rent
Synonyms
inflation
rent
rental
quitrent
inflationary spiral
rising prices
famine price
fancy price
hot economy
inflationary gap
inflationary prices
rent charge
scarcity price
soaring costs
stiff price