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ground rent

ground rent noun: rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.

Noun

ground rent (countable and uncountable, plural ground rents)

  1. Rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.
    • "You had better go to the devil and ask him for my ground-rent," he said.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 99
  2. (Pennsylvania, Maryland) Rentcharge.

ground rent meaning in Tamil

ground rent in Tamil

தரை, நில வாடகை, குத்தகை, மனை வரி, மனைத் தீர்வை

Forms of ground rent

pluralground rents

Questions about ground rent

What does ground rent mean?
Ground rent means rent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively security for the payment of the rent.
What is ground rent in Tamil?
Ground rent in Tamil is தரை, நில வாடகை, குத்தகை. See Ground rent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is ground rent?
Ground rent is a noun.
What is the plural of ground rent?
The plural of ground rent is ground rents.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ground rent (page history and authors); ground rent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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