rent-stabilized

Definitions

Examples

• The first 30 years of his life, he helped his father build and then rent out Rockefeller Center at a difficult time.

• And actual vote-buying is a pretty low-rent form of corruption anyway.

• The winter air is rent with cries from thousands of puffed up lips, begging to be let in.

• Squeezing what rent he could from the tenants, Washington moved on.

• The journey began well, as Washington managed to collect some rent from war-ravaged tenants in Cumberland.

• Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.

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

• You may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.

• He wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.

• 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.