quitrent
/kwit-rent/US // ˈkwɪtˌrɛnt //UK // (ˈkwɪtˌrɛnt) //
戒租,辞职,辍学,辍学率
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : rent paid by a freeholder or copyholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
Examples
The amount of the quitrent in the Northern Neck was the same as elsewhere in Virginia—two shillings annually for 100 acres.
I am exceedingly anxious to learn the fate of the quitrent bill.
On other estates the serfs' compulsory labor was commuted for a quitrent.
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