low-rent

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low-rent

(lō′rĕnt′)

adj. Informal

1. Having inexpensive rent: a low-rent apartment.

2. Of low social status or moral character: "Steve Buscemi ... may play low-rent, amoral types—hit men, weasels, snivelers—but ... he's more complicated than that" (Richard Leiby).

3. Lacking taste or refinement: a low-rent television drama.

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low-rent

adj

informal cheap and inferior: low-rent films.

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low′-rent′

adj.

Informal. second-rate; bargain-basement.

[1955–60]

Translations

low-rent

[ˈləʊrent] ADJ

1. (lit) [housing, flat] → de renta baja, de alquiler bajo

2. (fig) → de tres al cuarto, de pacotilla

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To go of errands with his slow and shuffling gait, which made you doubt how he ever was to arrive anywhere; to saw a small household's foot or two of firewood, or knock to pieces an old barrel, or split up a pine board for kindling-stuff; in summer, to dig the few yards of garden ground appertaining to a low-rented tenement, and share the produce of his labor at the halves; in winter, to shovel away the snow from the sidewalk, or open paths to the woodshed, or along the clothes-line; such were some of the essential offices which Uncle Venner performed among at least a score of families.

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Poor Grisham seems to be stuck on a legal treadmill as a high-flying Harvard graduate joins a low-rent Chcago law firm.

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The State's highest court has ruled that flat-dollar rent increases on low-rent apartments, a measure promulgated by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board in 2008 and 2009, are lawful.

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The measure would have allowed for continuing, though limited, office construction but would have outlawed large-scale construction in traditionally low-rent and industrial areas.

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Although tenants call the low-rent supplement the "poor tax," income studies show that there are many low rent units occupied by high income families.

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He also wants the RGB to allow a low-rent supplement because it is still very significant to owners.