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rent
1[ rent ]
noun
- a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
- a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner in return for the use of machinery, equipment, etc.
- Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate.
- profit or return derived from any differential advantage in production.
- Obsolete. revenue or income.
verb (used with object)
- to grant the possession and enjoyment of (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent from the tenant or lessee (often followed by out ).
- to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner.
Synonyms: ,
verb (used without object)
- to be leased or let for rent:
This apartment rents cheaply.
- to lease or let property.
- to take possession of and use property by paying rent:
She rents from a friend.
rent
1/ ɛԳ /
noun
- a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord or owner for the occupation or use of land, buildings, or by a user for the use of other property, such as a telephone
- economics
- that portion of the national income accruing to owners of land and real property
- the return derived from the cultivation of land in excess of production costs
- See economic rent
- for rentavailable for use and occupation subject to the payment of rent
verb
- tr to grant (a person) the right to use one's property in return for periodic payments
- tr to occupy or use (property) in return for periodic payments
- introften foll byat to be let or rented (for a specified rental)
rent
2/ ɛԳ /
noun
- a slit or opening made by tearing or rending; tear
- a breach or division, as in relations
verb
- the past tense and past participle of rend
Derived Forms
- ˌԳٲˈٲ, noun
- ˈԳٲ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- Գa·i·ٲ noun
- Գa· adjective
- un·Գa· adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rent1
Origin of rent2
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of rent1
Idioms and Phrases
- for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store:
an apartment for rent.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
On the day of the attack, he forced his way into the home of the Alfayoumi family, who had been renting rooms from him and attacked them with a knife, prosecutors said.
The properties also created opportunities to funnel money from the federal government and the GOP coffers into his bank account, forcing both to rent rooms and hold events at Mar-a-Lago and various Trump hotels.
The group lets other cyber criminals rent its malicious software to carry out attacks - leaving questions over who may have done so.
There’s Mamdani on a Coney Island beach, telling New Yorkers that he’s “freezing… their rent” before running into the frigid waters, clad in a $30 business suit from Steinway Thrift Shop.
Toledo, Cincinnati and hopefully Denver and New York, renting theaters and selling tickets themselves.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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