| 单词 | rent charger |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈrent charger ˈrent charger n. a person who receives or benefits from a rentcharge. ΚΠ 1755 Rep. Comm. Privileges & Elections touching Election for Wexford 38 He believed Vavasor took the Oath as a Rent-Charger. 1797 H. Grattan Let. in Misc. Wks. (1820) 306 You will not confirm an unjust distribution of your property, by becoming a poor rent-charger on a poor portion of your inheritance. 1870 Echo 16 Feb. Fixity of tenure which would make the landlord a pensioner or a rent-charger on his own estate. 1893 Duke of Argyll Unseen Found. Society xiii. 416 Mere rent-chargers can never have the same motives. 1907 Daily Chron. 20 Mar. 7/7 Mr. Shaw dismissed lightly the talk about reducing the landowner to the position of rent-charger. No landlord under this Bill would suffer any diminution of his patrimony. 1984 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 26 357 Paul Bew's portrayal of the Irish landlord as ‘a mere rent charger’. < as lemmas |
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