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(rare, informal) To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms..
As the old tenants left, more tenants of the same kind were installed, until the whole house was free from statutory control — or 'destatted'.
Few but Mr. Ben Parkin, Member of Parliament for North Paddington, paid much attention to the "destatting" racket until Miss Keeler and her friends drew aside the curtain on so many facets of our national life.
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Destat means (rare, informal) To encourage or harass statutory tenants into leaving (a building) so that it can be rented under less favourable terms..
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As the old tenants left, more tenants of the same kind were installed, until the whole house was free from statutory control — or 'destatted'.
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