A form of social or economic protest in which tenants who rent housing, commercial space, or other property act as a group to refuse to pay their rent until the landlord makes demanded improvements to the property or to the terms of the rental contracts.

Alternative form of quitrent

Alternative form of quitrent

(derogatory) low-quality, trashy

plural of rent-a-crowd

(dated) blackmail (rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin)

(UK, law) A rent reserved by deed, without a clause of distress.

plural of dry rent

plural of rent-a-thug

someone hired to perform possibly illegal and lethal duties resembling thuggery