to raise the rent
5
3.7
- phrasal verb
- /reɪz ðə rɛnt/
:
aumentar el alquiler
- You yourself raised the rent simply to finance a hunting expedition.
- the landlord raises the rent
- raise the rent each year
You just do stainless steel, granite, all these things, you raise the rent.
- You just do stainless steel, granite, all these things, you raise the rent.
- Yeah, San Francisco only lets you raise the rent by the consumer price index.
Examples
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We had to move when the landlord raised the rent to $25.
Blog text (34) -
Yeah, San Francisco only lets you raise the rent by the consumer price index.
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Do you think I want to raise the rent?
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How much did he raise the rent?
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I held off on raising the rent as long as I could.
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You're the one who raised the rent.
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Landlords raise the rent very high, making it difficult to lease the empty stores.
Blog text (31) -
The landlord wants to raise the rent to $17,000.
Blog text (33) -
Carrie thought that the landlord could not raise the rent in such an arbitrary manner.
Academic text (1991) -
When the landlord decided to raise the rent, many tenants were unhappy.
How High
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to increase the amount charged for renting a property' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'raise' (to increase) with 'rent' (payment for property); the definite article 'the' does not affect compositionality. This is a common verb + noun construction found across languages and in everyday English, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Raise the rent comes from a simple image: imagine a landlord lifting the price number for the monthly rent up on a sign or bill. So, it came to mean 'to increase the money someone pays to rent a place'.