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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 Word Forms
- Գa·i·ٲ noun
- Գa· adjective
- un·Գa· adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of rent1
Origin of rent2
Word 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
Toledo, Cincinnati and hopefully Denver and New York, renting theaters and selling tickets themselves.
And when clients are thousands of dollars in arrears in rent, they can refer them to Stay Housed LA and other groups that help distressed tenants.
Soon, the clubhouse will house two race simulators available for rent, with sponsored community days covering costs for those who can’t afford the fee.
Eventually, he found an American sponsor “and we had the proverbial fresh start,” he recalled, moving briefly to Florida before returning to the West Coast and renting an apartment in Huntington Beach.
Leeds City Council does not make people ineligible for housing because of rent debts when they are fleeing domestic abuse, but Gemma did not know this.
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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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