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ground rents

ground rents is the plural of ground rent.

Meaning of ground 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.

Questions about ground rents

What is ground rents the plural of?
Ground rents is the plural of ground rent.

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