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low-rent

[loh-rent]

adjective

  1. Informal.second-rate; bargain-basement.



low-rent

adjective

  1. informalcheap and inferior

    low-rent films

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of low-rent1

First recorded in 1975–80
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It is a low-rent security unit, kind of the cheapest version.

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As the housing crunch hit that state, the low-rent places where his plaintiffs lived “disappeared, and then there is just nowhere for them to go, and it just forces them right into homelessness,” he said.

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They are serviced through low-rent "dark stores" - or small shops dedicated to delivery and not open to the public - in densely populated areas, enabling economies of scale.

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At a recent event to mark the opening of 218 low-rent flats in the southern city of Seville, he declared that Spaniards "want us to act, they want the housing market to operate according to the law of reason, of social justice, not the law of the jungle; they want to ensure that vulture funds and speculators are not doing whatever they like".

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It’s the slightly low-rent, Canadian version of “Survivor.”

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