sweat equity

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   interest in a building that a tenant earns by contributing to its renovation or maintenance

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Questions about sweat equity

What does sweat equity mean?

sweat equity means "interest in a building that a tenant earns by contributing to its renovation or maintenance".

Is sweat equity a common word?

sweat equity 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.