rent roll

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rent roll (plural rent rolls)

  1. A list of lands, properties etc. owned by a person with the rents due on them; hence, the income generated for a person by the rent owed to them. [from 16th c.]
    • 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin, published 2005, page 6:
      But a peer of the realm, and one whose rent-roll is sixty thousand per annum, does not go to ruin in a day.