English Dictionary

ground rent

noun

(law, real estate) 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.

The ground rent for the apartment is due at the end of each month.

意味（1）

(law, real estate) 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.

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

意味（2）

(law, Pennsylvania, Maryland) Rentcharge.