extortionate
31extortionately — extortionate UK US /ɪkˈstɔːʃənət/ adjective DISAPPROVING ► more expensive than is reasonable: extortionate fee/price/rate, etc. »Most retailers charge extortionate prices for extended warranties often more than three times as much as an… …
32daylight robbery — Extortionate charge or cost …
33extortionately — extortionate ► ADJECTIVE 1) (of a price) much too high. 2) using or given to extortion. DERIVATIVES extortionately adverb …
34Consumer Credit Act 1974 — United Kingdom Parliament Long title An Act to establish for the protection of consumers a new system, administered by the Director General of Fair Trading, of licensing and other control of traders concerned with the provision of credit, or the …
35Rack-rent — denotes two different concepts: # an excessive or extortionate rent, or # the full rent of a property, including both land and improvements.The second definition is equivalent to the economic rent of the land plus interest on capital improvements …
36rack rent — noun an extortionate rent • Hypernyms: ↑rent * * * noun Etymology: rack (IV) : a rent equal or nearly equal to the full annual value of the property : an excessive or unreasonably high rent * * * 1. n. an extortionate or very high rent, esp. an… …
37Hebron — Infobox Palestinian Authority muni name=Hebron imgsize=250 caption=Downtown Hebron hebname=חֶבְרוֹן arname=الخليل meaning= founded= type=muna typefrom=1997 altOffSp=Al Khalīl altUnoSp=Al Ḫalīl governorate=hb latd=31|latm=32|lats=00|latNS=N… …
38Trading while insolvent (UK) — In many legal systems, once a company becomes insolvent, the directors have to take particular care. Under UK law, trading while insolvent can trigger several provisions under the Insolvency Act 1986 which may have the effect of making directors… …
39Domenico Cutaia — Domenico Danny Cutaia (born November 22, 1936 East New York, Brooklyn) is a Brooklyn mafioso and a caporegime in the Lucchese crime family.[1] Contents 1 Background 2 Mob activities …
40Ordinances of 1311 — The Ordinances of 1311 were a series of regulations imposed upon King Edward II by the peerage and clergy of the Kingdom of England to restrict the power of the king.[a] The twenty one signatories of the Ordinances are referred to as the Lords… …
