rent-free

[ rent-free ]

adverb

1. without payment of rent:

   We lived rent-free for six months.

adjective

1. not subject to rent:

   a rent-free apartment.

rent-free

adjective

1. without payment of rent

Word History and Origins

Origin of rent-free¹

First recorded in 1625–35; rent ¹ + -free

Example Sentences

If Dick can't get a living out of a farm, that's no reason for letting him have it rent free.

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Mr. Rendell also lives rent free in a house adjoining and belonging to the church.

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Edward gave him a large farm, rent free; and in a few years Humphrey saved up sufficient to purchase a property for himself.

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He can have his cottage rent free, and three or four shillings a week.

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Only John Adams, when he came, was shocked in all his scrupulosity to find an American agent living rent-free!

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