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单词 to fine down
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to fine down (also off)
b. transitive. to fine down (also off): to reduce rent by (a certain amount or part) on payment of a fine (fine n.1 7b). Also: to reduce (rent) or the rent relating to (a property or lease) in this manner. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [verb (transitive)] > reduce on payment of fee
to fine down (also off)1705
1705 London Gaz. No. 4183/3 The Tenant fining down a Part.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4540/5 Fining off part of the Rent after the rate of ten Years Purchase.
1736 Rep. Comm. Petition Samuel Low 4 Having fined down Six Pence per Acre at the Time of taking his Lease.
1742 J. Anderson Geneal. Hist. House of Yvery II. vi. xi. 393 Having..fined down for a long Term of Years divers large Estates.
1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 30 Then fining down the year's rent came into fashion.
1832 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 3 No. 17. 743 Some proprietors will fine down a lease whenever a tenant pleases, and will renew the lease from the period of fining down.
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