释义 |
rent-roll [rent n.1] A roll or register of rents; a list of lands and tenements belonging to one, together with the rents paid on them; hence, the sum of one's income as shown by such a list.
1534Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 280, I have recevyd your rente-rowle, and getheryd up the rent. 1611Cotgr., Rentier, a Rent-roll. 1695Congreve Love for L. v. ii, No, no, only give you a rent-roll of my possessions. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 204 The ostentation of displaying..the rent-roll of the estates which they possess. 1827Carlyle Misc. (1857) I. 31 Where, again we might ask, lay Shakspeare's rent-roll? 1882Besant Revolt of Man ii. (1883) 37 The holder of a splendid title, the owner of a splendid rent-roll. attrib.1842Tennyson E. Morris 103 The rentroll Cupid of our rainy isles. |