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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
rack rent

▶noun a very high rent.

– derivatives
rack-renter noun.

– origin C16 (as rack-rented): from rack1 (in the sense ‘cause stress’) + rent1.

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