"peppercorn rent" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2016 May, Simon Heffer, Literary Review, page 1",
          "text": "Where public libraries are scheduled for closure, their premises and stock should be offered at a peppercorn rent and on a long lease to any subscription library wishing to take them over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 23, “Network News: South Western CRPs return to work”, in Rail, page 20",
          "text": "Both groups rent space from SWR on a peppercorn rent basis.",
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        {
          "ref": "2024 March 27, Jade Angeles Fitton, “A moment that changed me: my partner drove off and left me – and in solitude I found my self-confidence”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "Autumn turned to winter and then spring. I had to leave the property, as the rent was going up and I couldn’t afford it. But I wanted to remain alone. By a stroke of luck, I was offered a peppercorn rent on a holiday cottage by the sea that I had previously cleaned as a housekeeper.",
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        "A nominal rent, originally of a single peppercorn."
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  "word": "peppercorn rent"
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        {
          "ref": "2016 May, Simon Heffer, Literary Review, page 1",
          "text": "Where public libraries are scheduled for closure, their premises and stock should be offered at a peppercorn rent and on a long lease to any subscription library wishing to take them over.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 23, “Network News: South Western CRPs return to work”, in Rail, page 20",
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          "text": "Autumn turned to winter and then spring. I had to leave the property, as the rent was going up and I couldn’t afford it. But I wanted to remain alone. By a stroke of luck, I was offered a peppercorn rent on a holiday cottage by the sea that I had previously cleaned as a housekeeper.",
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