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 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 Grand, Sarah
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 Brame, Charlotte M.
There's about eight thousand acres, and a rent-roll in good times of perhaps a couple of thousand a year.
From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald
He is rich, courted, as are all young men with a respectable rent-roll, and might have made many a titled débutante Mrs. Chesney had he so chosen.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
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 Lever, Charles James
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