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RENT-ROLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rent-roll mean? 

RENT-ROLL (noun)
  The noun RENT-ROLL has 1 sense:

1. a register of rents; includes the names of tenants and the amount of rent they payplay

  Familiarity information: RENT-ROLL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


RENT-ROLL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A register of rents; includes the names of tenants and the amount of rent they pay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("rent-roll" is a kind of...):

register; registry (an official written record of names or events or transactions)


 Context examples 


I would advise her blackaviced suitor to look out: if another comes, with a longer or clearer rent-roll,—he's dished—But, mother, I did not come to hear Mr. Rochester's fortune: I came to hear my own; and you have told me nothing of it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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