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 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 Bell, Edward Allen
This total absence of coercion is no marvel, however, for in the forest there are no fortune-hunters, dowries being unknown, and there are no Dianas to join in the chase after a rent-roll.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone
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.
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 Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)
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