Definitions for ground-rent

ground-rent ground rent

Ground-Rent is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 394 anagrams from letters in ground-rent (-degnnorrtu).

Definitions for ground-rent

noun

  1. the rent at which land is let to a tenant either for a long term or perpetually.

Origin of ground-rent

First recorded in 1660-70

Examples for ground-rent

On June 4, in that year, she paid the ground rent for the last time.

The Bay Farm Island people pay a ground rent of $50 per acre.

ground rent, on the other hand, is less under these conditions.

It is subject to a ground rent of £1 to the Stanhope estate.

He owns the place; the land all belongs to him, and that which is not occupied by his houses pays him ground rent perpetually.

At the time of his death it was under lease to the California Theater Company at a ground rent of a thousand dollars a month.

The property is subject to a ground rent of seventy dollars per annum.

Once a year I used to go with the mother to pay the ground rent.

A devise of “ground rent” carries not only the rent but the reversion.

As above explained, there is no land tax, nor ground rent, and every man builds his own house and is his own landlord.

Word Value for ground-rent
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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