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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Her rent-roll was at this time 60,000l. a year, equal to at least 200,000l. at the present day.
From Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. II (of 3) by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson
The Earl of Fitzkillingham, with a rent-roll of fifty thousand a year, has no need to do; he has only to be.
From The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius by Sarah Grand
A long and brilliant rent-roll makes up for a short and obscure pedigree.
From Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker
Kellett's Court was one of those great mansions which the Irish gentlemen of a past age were so given to building, totally forgetting how great the disproportion was between their house and their rent-roll.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
His rent-roll is less than Abbot Litlington's, and there are heavier arrears.
From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce
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