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 whole of the valley was still Basset land, but undrained in the bottom and light on the slopes, it made no figure in a rent-roll.
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He told him how much each farmer paid in rent, how much the house property was worth, what amount was spent each year in repairs, and finally the net amount of his rent-roll.
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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.
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"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."
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There's about eight thousand acres, and a rent-roll in good times of perhaps a couple of thousand a year.
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