Definition of "ground-rent" [ground-rent]

• The rent at which land is let for building purposes. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Now ground-rent is payment for the labor of nature!"
• "When land is held out of use, the cost of its use (the basic ground-rent) raises due to the competition of the amount of it that remains available for use."
• "The regulation of these land rights is a natural result of the introduction of the taxation of land values (after the value has been publicly declared on up-dated land maps) and the free use of earnings and money use outside of ground-rent on natural resources."