Meaning of ground rent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. Rentcharge.
   Pennsylvania, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“"You had better go to the devil and ask⟳ him for my ground-rent," he said.”

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