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Ground rent   /graʊnd rɛnt/   Listen
Ground rent

noun
1.
Payment for the right to occupy and improve a piece of land.





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"Ground rent" Quotes from Famous Books



... a favor to the workingmen, although he often so pretends. He buys it for the purpose of obtaining surplus wealth from the labor of the workingmen, which he then pockets under the name of profit, interest, house and ground rent. This surplus wealth, squeezed out of the workingmen, and which in so far as the capitalist does not squander it in dissipation, crystallizes in his hands into more capital, puts him in a condition to steadily enlarge his plant, improve the ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel
... and bequeath to my executors, hereinafter named, the sum of Twelve hundred dollars, in trust to invest in ground rent, or City of Philadelphia Loans at their disposal or discretion to pay the interest or income arising therefrom annually. To be applied, the interest of the Twelve hundred dollars above mentioned, for educational purposes alone, for children of both sexes of color, in Canada, apart from ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still


Words linked to "Ground rent" :   rent


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