ground rent
- noun
- UK
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canon
- The leaseholder received a notice stating that the ground rent for the land would increase next year.
Examples
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Many homeowners are surprised by the additional cost of ground rent on top of their mortgage payments.
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Often, the landowner has bills of his own to pay that your ground rent helps offset.
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There is no dumber idea than not paying your ground rent.
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The ground rent is 800,000 pounds a year.
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Every year, tenants must pay their ground rent to the landowner for the right to occupy and improve their property.
Synonyms
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A regular payment for using a house or other property
How Much
- UK
- Jargon
Surface Forms
Morphology
Both constituents transparently contribute to the meaning: 'ground' = land/soil and 'rent' = a recurring payment, so 'ground rent' is readily understood as payment for land. This simple noun–noun composition follows common English compounding patterns and has clear cross‑linguistic parallels, so a B1 learner who knows the parts can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name ground rent comes from the simple image of paying for the ground itself. Imagine you own a house but not the land under it, so you pay the landowner regularly for the right to 'occupy' that ground, and that is why ground rent means a regular payment for the land under a property.