ground rent
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ground rent
noun ground rents
- 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.
- Rentcharge.
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noun 1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner
| Español | canon superficiario |
|---|---|
| Português | solarium |
| Français | rente superficiaire |
| Italiano | canone |
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@misc{ground_rent_2026,
title = {ground rent},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ground%20rent},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
