rent-roll

American  

[rent-rohl] / ˈrɛntˌroʊl /

Or rent roll

noun

1. an account or schedule of rents, the amount due from each tenant, and the total received.

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rent-roll British  

noun

1. a register of lands and buildings owned by a person, company, etc, showing the rent due and total amount received from each tenant

2. the total income arising from rented property

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Etymology

Origin of rent-roll

First recorded in 1525–35

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Example Sentences

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rent-roll

"To accept him only for the coronet and the rent-roll, his position and his Helmsley, seems not a very grateful and flattering return for his preference?"

From Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories by Ouida

When the East India Company obtained the diwani or financial administration of Bengal in 1765, so much of Tippera as had been placed on the Mahommedan rent-roll came under British rule.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

"A very handsome rent-roll, sir," he replied; "so handsome that a plain man finds it difficult to understand how the heir could sacrifice it for any cause."

From Lawrence Clavering by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Abbot's rent-roll, 24, 60; pancakes at, 27 ff.;

From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce

He found his master in possession of a considerable rent-roll in various parts of the country, the manors being situate in the counties of Worcester, Gloucester, Oxford, Surrey, Buckingham, and Middlesex.

From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce

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