exact an excessive or extortionate rent from (a tenant) or for (a property): (as noun rack-renting)hundreds of thousands of peasants who hate corruption, rack-renting, and foreign intervention (as adjective rack-renting)rack-renting landlords
Derivatives
rack-renter
noun
Origin:
late 16th century (as rack-rented): from the verb rack1 (in the sense 'cause stress') + the noun rent1
rack rent in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of rack rent in the US English dictionary
