rack-rents

Definition of rack-rentsnext
present tense third-person singular of rack-rent

Example Sentences

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Verb
  • Owner Mary Josielewski rents her small rooms only to retirees.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Speedway Motorsports, which owns Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, rents COTA for the week from COTA chairman Bobby Epstein.
    Kevin Lyttle, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • The nonprofit leases the buildings back to DPS, which allows Denver School Facilities to mortgage the buildings with a bank trustee that collateralizes the buildings in exchange for debt proceeds, according to the lawsuit.
    Jessica Seaman, Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Launchpad leases the building from a nonprofit and has put about $100,000 toward it for renovations.
    Miriam Fauzia, Dallas Morning News, 26 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Most notable among the analyst hires is Skyler Mornhinweg, whose father Marty was Harbaugh’s offensive coordinator in Baltimore from 2016 to 2018.
    Dan Duggan, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The Fairness in Apartment Rental Expenses, or FARE, mandates that the party who hires the broker must pay the broker.
    Mahsa Saeidi, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026
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“Rack-rents.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rack-rents. Accessed 9 Mar. 2026.

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