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ground rent en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) 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, countable, qualifier:Maryland, uncountable) Rentcharge.

Forms

Translations (9)

sv tomträttsavgäld (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · it canone (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · de Bauzins (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · de Erbbauzins (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · pt solarium (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · fr rente superficiaire (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · es canon superficiario (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · nl solarium (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner) · nl retributie (1. rent under a ground lease for a surface estate, paid by a ground lessor to a surface owner)