rent seck

[ sek ]

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noun, plural rents seck.

a right to rent in which the renter does not have the usual power of collection by seizure of the tenant's goods.

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Also called dry rent.

Origin of rent seck

1425–75; late Middle English <Anglo-French rente seque literally, dry rent

The first 30 years of his life, he helped his father build and then rent out Rockefeller Center at a difficult time.
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And actual vote-buying is a pretty low-rent form of corruption anyway.
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The winter air is rent with cries from thousands of puffed up lips, begging to be let in.
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Squeezing what rent he could from the tenants, Washington moved on.
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The journey began well, as Washington managed to collect some rent from war-ravaged tenants in Cumberland.
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Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
A fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
You may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.
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He wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
The high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.
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