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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I'll look into the rent-roll again; perhaps I am mistaken.'
From The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth
Many of the arrears were concessions made by the landlord in seasons of hardship and distress, but were unrecorded as such in the rent-roll or the tenant's receipt.
From St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever
"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
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
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)
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