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Definition of Rent

1. Noun. A payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.

2. Verb. Let for money. "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

3. Noun. An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. "She had snags in her stockings"

4. Verb. Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract. "They rent the tourists their cars"; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

5. Noun. The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions.

6. Verb. Engage for service under a term of contract. "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

7. Noun. The act of rending or ripping or splitting something. "He gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

8. Verb. Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.

Definition of Rent

1. v. i. To rant.

2. n. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

3. v. t. To tear. See Rend.

4. n. Income; revenue. See Catel.

5. v. t. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

6. v. i. To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

7. n. That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic, or Ricardian, rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

Definition of Rent

1. Noun. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property. ¹

2. Noun. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service. ¹

3. Noun. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money/rent. ¹

7. Noun. A tear or rip in some surface. ¹

8. Noun. A division or schism between two things. ¹

9. Verb. (past of rend) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rent

1. to obtain temporary use of in return for compensation [v -ED, -ING, -S] : RENTABLE [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rent

renovictions renowme renowmed renowmes renown renowned renownedly renowner renowners renownful

renowning renownless renowns rens rensselaerite rent (current term) rent-a-car rent-a-cop rent-a-crowd rent-a-quote

rent-free rent-rebate rent-roll rent boys rent collector rent control rent money rent moneys rent monies

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