ground rent

1. 1.

   payment for the right to occupy and improve a piece of land

   Broaderrent

Questions about ground rent

What does ground rent mean?

ground rent means "payment for the right to occupy and improve a piece of land".

Is ground rent a common word?

ground rent is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.