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Definition of 'rent'English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rente, from .
Noun
( en-noun)
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
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A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
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An object for which rent is charged or paid.
(obsolete) income; revenue
* Gower
- [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
* (Alexander Pope)
- So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
Derived terms
* rental
* renting
* rent strike
Verb
( en-verb)
To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
To grant occupation in return for rent.
To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
To be leased or let for rent.
- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Etymology 2
(etyl) . Variant form of renden.
Noun
( en-noun)
A tear or rip in some surface.
* 1913 ,
- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
A division or schism.
Verb
(head)
(rend)
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