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单词 at five years' purchase
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at five (six, ten, etc.) years' purchase
a. The annual return or rent from land. Chiefly in stating the price of land in at five (six, ten, etc.) years' purchase.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > income, revenue, or profit > [noun] > income derived from land or property
purchase1516
rentalc1535
land-revenue1689
land-rent1706
1516 T. Barker Let. 22 Dec. in P. S. Allen Lett. Richard Fox (1929) liii. 85 His neybor Richard Newlond wulnot selle hys vnder viij marke;the wyche ys after xvj yere purchys.
1571 J. Leslie Diary 21 July in Bannatyne Misc. (1855) III. 132 For in bying of purchasses, the commone use is to gif fywe ȝeris purchasse, as they call it which is fywe ȝeris proffeit for a lyferent and xx ȝeris purchasse for heritages.
1584 G. Whetstone Mirour for Magestrates f. 29v The most pernicious Broaker..he helpeth him to sell free land at fiue yeres purchase.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 244 Land purchased at Sixteene yeares Purchase, wil yeeld Six in the Hundred.
?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 21 A Lease for a single life is generally valued at seven years Purchase.
a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 11 The Earl was ordained to sell these lands at nine years purchase.
1787 J. Bentham Def. Usury vi. 49 During the distress produced by the war, lands..were sold at 20, 18, nay, I believe, in some instances, even so low as 15 years purchase.
1852 J. Bright Let. 25 Oct. in Speeches Public Policy (1868) II. 534 500,000l. per annum..or a principal sum, at twenty years' purchase, of 10,000,000l.
1881 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 44 212 Immediate sale was inevitable, even at from fifteen to eighteen years' purchase, not an unusual price.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvii. [Ithaca] 669 A maximum of £60 par annum..representing at 5% simple interest on capital of £1.200 (estimate of price at 20 years purchase).
1967 Econ. Hist. Rev. 20 230 These properties were sold generally at 20 years' purchase.
1992 Investors Chron. (Nexis) 10 Apr. 16 If you pay a price for a property that shows you an immediate return of 5 per cent on your money, you are buying the property at ‘20 years' purchase’ of the rent it produces.
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