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rent strike

Meaning of "rent strike" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF RENT STRIKE

rent straɪk


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RENT STRIKE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Rent strike is a noun.
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WHAT DOES RENT STRIKE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Rent strike

A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants come together and agree to refuse to pay their rent en masse until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord. This can be a useful tactic of final resort for use against intransigent landlords, but carries the obvious risk of eviction in some cases. Historically, rent strikes have often been used in response to problems such as high rents, poor conditions in the property, or unreasonable tenancy demands; however, there have been situations where wider issues have led to such action.

Definition of rent strike in the English dictionary

The definition of rent strike in the dictionary is a method of protest whereby a group of tenants with the same landlord agree to refuse to pay their rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH RENT STRIKE

antistrike · awestrike · counterstrike · flystrike · grike · gryke · misstrike · multistrike · outstrike · overstrike · poststrike · prestrike · Reich · restrike · shrike · skrike · strike · thunderstrike · trike · tryke

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RENT STRIKE

rent · rent allowance · rent book · rent boy · rent collector · rent control · rent rebate · rent review · rent-a-car · rent-a-crowd · rent-a-mob · rent-controlled · rent-free · rent-roll · rentability · rentable · rental · rental car · rental library · rentaller

WORDS THAT END LIKE RENT STRIKE

air strike · bird strike · coal strike · dock strike · first-strike · general strike · go-slow strike · hunger strike · lightning strike · out on strike · rail strike · red-backed shrike · relay hunger strike · second-strike · sit-down strike · surgical strike · sympathy strike · take strike · ten-strike · token strike · wildcat strike

Synonyms and antonyms of rent strike in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «rent strike» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RENT STRIKE

Find out the translation of rent strike to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of rent strike from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rent strike» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

租金罢工
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

alquiler huelga
570 millions of speakers
en

English

rent strike
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

किराया हड़ताल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إضراب الإيجار
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

аренда забастовка
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

aluguel greve
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ভাড়া ধর্মঘট
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

louer grève
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mogok sewa
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Miete Streik
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

家賃ストライキ
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

임대 파업
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Sewa serangan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuê đình công
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

வாடகை வேலை நிறுத்தம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

भाडे स्ट्राइक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Kira grevi
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

affitto sciopero
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

strajk wynajęcia
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

оренда страйк
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

chirie grevă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απεργία ενοικίου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huur staking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hyresstrejk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

leie streik
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rent strike

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RENT STRIKE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rent strike

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RENT STRIKE»

Discover the use of rent strike in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rent strike and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The City and the Grassroots: A Cross-Cultural Theory of ...
Few historical events offer such a direct link between social struggle and urban policy as the one observed between the Glasgow Rent Strike of 1915 and the intervention of the British state in the housing field. Under the pressures of war, the ...
Manuel Castells, 1983
2
Kids on Strike!
Describes the conditions and treatment that drove workers, including many children, to various strikes, from the mill workers' strikes in 1828 and 1836 and the coal strikes at the turn of the century to the work of Mother Jones on behalf of ...
Susan Campbell Bartoletti, 2003
3
Class Struggle and Social Welfare
This can be considered the end of the Rent Strike. It should not be forgotten that the wider context of this particular struggle was the national defeat of the 1926 General Strike and general demoralization within the working-class movement.
Michael Lavalette, Gerry Mooney, 2013
4
New York Magazine
Of course, things never get this far in a properly planned rent strike. When you go to the Dispossess hearing with your lawyer, you will explain why you haven't paid rent and request that your rent money be paid into the court under one of the ...
5
The Politics of Public Housing : Black Women's Struggles ...
And I talked to them about doing a rent strike.” Initially and throughout the campaign, the rent strike received mixed reviews. Annie Rogers argued that initially even Bobby Cheeks did not want to strike; he wanted to talk and negotiate with ...
Rhonda Y. Williams Associate Professor of Women's Studies and History Case Western Reserve University, 2004
6
Ebony
Outraged by their own misery, more than 13,000 persons living in more than 250 substandard tenements declared war on slum landlords and rats by staging a rent strike, dramatized by defiant "rat marches" on City Hall. The spark that ignited  ...
7
No Trespassing!: Squatting, Rent Strikes, and Land Struggles ...
Comparisons with the non-strike neighborhood of Brooklyn during the rent strike period indicate that strike activity caused these reductions. Members of rent strike buildings and organizations enjoyed greater access to city housing ...
Anders Corr, 1999
8
British Student Activism in the Long Sixties
All student tenants of university accommodations were asked to put their rent payments in a special rent strike fund administered by the union instead of paying it to the university. Since the demonstrations and massive protests of the previous ...
Hoefferle Caroline, Caroline Hoefferle, 2012
9
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress of ...
By early October Brooklyn CORE's Rent Strike Committee, under Owens's leadership, had organized the borough's first significant rent strike in Bedford- Stuyvesant. Tenants in five buildings (four in Bedford-Stuyvesant and one in Brownsville) ...
Brian Purnell, 2013
10
Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937
The full repertoire of these complex street politics was acted out in the rent strike. By the summer of 1931, the rent campaign had been 'appropriated' by the CDE, which organised a series of mass meetings in the barris. The rent strike spread ...
Chris Ealham, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RENT STRIKE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rent strike is used in the context of the following news items.
1
On Britain's left, there's growing talk of a national rent strike
We're here to discuss rent strikes; their feasibility, the legal implications, the practicalities of organising, the possibility of change through a mass refusal to pay ... «CityMetric, Jun 15»
2
Is It Time for London to Go on a Rent Strike?
There are two types of vehicles that strike a particular fear in the heart of London's neighborhoods: police vans and Foxtons Minis. Synonymous with ... «VICE, Jun 15»
3
UCL students threatened after rent strikes
Up to 200 students at Campbell House and 230 at Hawkridge House have been withholding rent money on the grounds that conditions in their accommodation ... «FelixOnline, Jun 15»
4
University College London threatens to throw 'rent strikers' off …
Students taking part in a “rent strike” at University College London have been warned they will be thrown off their courses and barred from graduating if they do ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
5
Bob's Burgers: "The Oeder Games" Review
There, the landlord averted the "Rent Strike" with mojitos, snacks and an ... Where the episode seemed to divert, however, was in the ending to the rent storyline. «IGN, May 15»
6
Election 2015: When Ed was Ted – Ed Miliband laughs at footage of …
Asked if he won the rent strike, he said: "I think we made some progress." As to the footage, he said: "How could you possibly find it?" He was told it was in the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
7
Ed Miliband seen in video as a young student protester
He has put a campaign against excessive rent rises at the centre of his ... The Labour leader – who called himself 'Ted' – led a 'rent strike' when he was a ... «Daily Mail, May 15»
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Sir Alex Ferguson gives donation in honour of rent strike heroine
The former Manchester United manager has pledged £5000 for the fund to build a statue in honour of Barbour, who successfully led rent strikes during the First ... «Herald Scotland, Apr 15»
9
UCL students threaten to withhold rent over 'unbearable' living …
... a costly student rent strike over "unbearable" living conditions at one of its halls. ... £200,000 in rent due to building work at Hawkridge House in Kentish Town, ... «Evening Standard, Apr 15»
10
Tenants engage in partial rent strike at two Richmond apartment …
On Wednesday evening, a group of tenants at two apartment buildings in Richmond participated in a partial rent strike over rent increases. After working with ... «Richmond Confidential, Apr 15»
REFERENCE
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