rent-stabilized

[ rent-stey-buh-lahyzd ]

/ ˈrɛntˌsteɪ bəˌlaɪzd /

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adjective (of housing)

regulated by law so that rent increases may not exceed a specified amount.

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OTHER WORDS FROM rent-stabilized

rent-sta·bi·li·za·tion, noun

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.
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A fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins.
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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.
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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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