rent roll

noun

A list of lands, properties etc. owned by a person with the rents due on them.

First used 16th c.
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Meanings

nounrent roll (plural rent rolls)

plural rent rolls

  1. A list of lands, properties etc. owned by a person with the rents due on them.
  2. The income generated for a person by the rent on properties owned.First known use 16th c.

    But a peer of the realm, and one whose rent-roll is sixty thousand per annum, does not go to ruin in a day.

    1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin, published 2005, page 6
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