Word Meanings - RACK-RENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it; an excessive or unreasonably high rent. Blackstone.

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• ANNUALIST
  One who writes for, or who edits, an annual.
• ANNUAL
  1. Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river . Ray. 2. Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the
• VALUE
  Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power
• VALUER
  One who values; an appraiser.
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• VALUED POLICY
  A policy in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified; -- opposed to open policy.
• VALUED-POLICY LAW
  A law requiring insurance companies to pay to the insured, in case of total loss, the full amount of the insurance, regardless of the actual value of the property at the time of the loss.
• VALUELESS
  Being of no value; having no worth.
• TENEMENT
  That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
• TENEMENTARY
  Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.
• VALUED
  Highly regarded; esteemed; prized; as, a valued contributor; a valued friend. Valued policy. See under Policy.
• ANNUALLY
  Yearly; year by year.
• TENEMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to a tenement; capable of being held by tenants. Blackstone.
• SEMIANNUALLY
  Every half year.
• CONTENEMENT
  That which is held together with another thing; that which is connected with a tenetment, or thing holden, as a certin quantity of land a Burrill.
• UNDERVALUE
  1. To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate. 2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority. Atterbury. I write not this
• OUTVALUE
  To exceed in value. Boyle.
• SEMIANNUAL
  Half-yearly.
• UNVALUED
  1. Not valued; not appraised; hence, not considered; disregarded; valueless; as, an unvalued estate. "Unvalued persons." Shak. 2. Having inestimable value; invaluable. The golden apples of unvalued price. Spenser.
• MISVALUE
  To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue. But for I am so young, I dread my work Wot be misvalued both of old and young. W. Browne.
• EQUIVALUE
  To put an equal value upon; to put on a par with another thing. W. Taylor.
• BIANNUAL
  Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.
• OVERVALUE
  1. To value excessively; to rate at too high a price. "To overvalue human power." Holyday. 2. To exceed in value. H. Brooke.
• UNDERVALUER
  One who undervalues.
• INVALUED
  Inestimable. Drayton.