rent collector


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Noun1.rent collector - a person who goes from house to house collecting rents for the owner
accumulator, collector, gatherer - a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
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rent collector

nesattore m dell'affitto
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
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It had something of that air of conscious virtue, of unimpeachable respectability, that distinguishes a rent collector in a low neighbourhood.
A thwarted concert pianist, the embittered woman tries to persuade her son to stop pursuing his passion for painting while he earns money as a rent collector.
Throughout the day, while he toils as a rent collector, Elizabeth marinates in bitterness and resentment, horrified that the debts of her late husband (Michael Keogh) have condemned her to a two-up two-down surrounded soot-smudged members of working class.
Working as a rent collector, Lowry took art classes by night, tutored by French Impressionist Adolphe Valette, then painted into the early hours to hone his craft.
Throughout the day, while her son toils as a rent collector, Elizabeth marinates in bitterness and resentment, horrified that the debts of her late husband (Michael Keogh) have condemned her to a two-up two-down surrounded by sootsmudged members of the working class.
Throughout the day, while he toils as a rent collector, Elizabeth marinates in reads aloud a review in the local newspaper of his painting Coming From The Mill, which is dismissed as "an insult to the people of Lancashire".
ETPB Sialkot zone Rent Collector Rana Waheed said: 'Our team is investigating the Guru Nanak Mahal Bathanwala.
The raiding team consisted of Inspector Falak Sher, Rent Collector Riaz Ahmed, Patwari Abdul Shakoor and other staff.
The Tudor period was a tumultuous and earthy time, and Glendinning packs her heroine's salad days with vibrant, sensual descriptions of living conditions, festivals, and religious customs, as well as encounters with historical figures, like the odious royal rent collector Sir John Tregonwell and flawed and impulsive rebel leader Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger.
On the morning of November 9, 1888, a rent collector arrived at Kelly's home at Miller's Court in Whitechapel, east London, and discovered her mutilated corpse lying on the bed.
Robb claims that he worked "simply as a rent collector," having little to do with the club's management, were rejected by a tax tribunal.
Suite Francaise (Cert 15, PS19.99) Rent collector Madame Angellier (Kristin Scott Thomas) is caught amid tensions in World War II France, helping refugees while a German officer (Matthias Schoenaerts) is billeted in her house.