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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of rent-roll

First recorded in 1525–35

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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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