rent-rebate

1. 1.

   a rebate on rent given by a local government authority

   Broaderrebate

   United Kingdom

Questions about rent-rebate

What does rent-rebate mean?

rent-rebate means "a rebate on rent given by a local government authority".

How many syllables are in rent-rebate?

rent-rebate has 3 syllables and divides as ren-t-re-bate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is rent-rebate a common word?

rent-rebate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.