rack-rented

past tense of rack-rent

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rack-rented
Verb
  • Some builders are taking it into their own hands to avoid the costly red tape and bureaucracy of affordable housing financing to build homes that can be rented or sold at affordable rates but without using subsidies.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • When private equity rented out homes, the new tenants tended to be lower income than the prior owners and more likely to be young and nonwhite.
    Alex Mayyasi, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Titan Protection Security was hired, but that didn’t bring the company much comfort since employees work in the building all hours of the day.
    PJ Green September 14, Kansas City Star, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Masino was hired at Cracker Barrel in 2023 after holding top positions at Taco Bell and Starbucks’ smaller international divisions and as CEO of Sprinkles Cupcakes.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Just in the city of San Francisco alone, over the last 2½ years, 1 out of every 4 square feet of office space was leased by an AI company, according to CBRE.
    Diana Olick, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
  • In recent months, the US Marine Corps quietly leased a 57,000-square-foot warehouse at the former Subic Bay Naval Supply Depot.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Rack-rented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rack-rented. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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