rent

UK /ˈɹɛnt/ US /ˈɹɛnt/
noun 7verb 4adj 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.

I am asking £300 a week rent.

This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

2

A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

3

A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.

4

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

5

Income; revenue.

So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.

verb

1

To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.

2

To grant a lease in return for rent.

We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.

3

To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

4

To be leased or let for rent.

The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

noun

1

A tear or rip in some surface.

[O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.

The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.

2

A division or schism.

[T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.

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