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

Example Sentences

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rent-roll

Cawdor, Raleigh Hall, and Dunmore House, three of the finest residences in England, together with a rent-roll counted by hundreds of thousands, should have made the earl a happy man.

From A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

The first year gave them a new rent-roll of £40, the second year saw this sum doubled.

From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Edward Allen Bell

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 Mrs Trollope

"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

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