rent-roll
Americannoun
noun
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a register of lands and buildings owned by a person, company, etc, showing the rent due and total amount received from each tenant
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the total income arising from rented property
Etymology
Origin of rent-roll
First recorded in 1525–35
Example Sentences
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The amount of the real property may be ascertained by the rent-roll; that of the personal, by means of papers left by the deceased, and a valuation of the effects made by competent persons.
From The Vicar of Wrexhill by Trollope, Mrs
Why, indeed, should they be, seeing that he was now the assured heir to the broad acres and splendid rent-roll of Cranston?
From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram
Pasley Carew's redeeming characteristics were a large estate and rent-roll, sporting instincts, and extreme openhandedness in everything that ministered to his own pleasures.
From Maid of the Mist by Oxenham, John
For he saw now that there were other things to be garnered--Garth, its broad acres, its fine rent-roll, the old man's savings, Josina.
From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.
Since the birth of the first Mervyn, 'the wicked squire,' the eldest son had inherited the same peculiar regard as regularly as to him had come the estate and most enviable rent-roll.
From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf
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