rack-rent

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rack-rent
Verb
  • The group who rents out the synagogue decided that women are allowed to pants, though Barbara notes that she’s never seen the pastor’s wife in anything but skirts or dresses.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 June 2025
  • Next, supply chain leaders should recognize that a significant portion of the complex web of interactions in supply chains occurs among assets that are rented rather than owned.
    Shekar Natarajan, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • The company hired McKinsey to develop a growth playbook for CNN.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
  • Yet while hiring generally has slowed, other economists figured job growth remained sturdy last month as companies frustrated by labor shortages during the pandemic continued to curtail layoffs.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 7 June 2025
Verb
  • There is a funny trend within the trend, though: As Crain’s found, and a quick search of our own confirms, a bunch of these clinics have leased office space along a commercial strip on or just off Madison Avenue, forming a trippy little corridor around Grand Central.
    Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 2 June 2025
  • OpenAI leases about 1 million square feet of space across five different locations in the city and employs roughly 2,000 people in San Francisco.
    Wendy Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2025
Verb
  • One of the many things that make chartering a large yacht so special is the variety of bucket-list level experiences that are possible.
    Bill Springer, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • First, voters would elect the chartering committee in June or November 2026.
    Jonathan Horwitz, Oc Register, 2 June 2025
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“Rack-rent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rack-rent. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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