rent
1a 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.
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.
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.
Idioms about rent
for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store: an apartment for rent.
Origin of rent
1synonym study For rent
Other words for rent
Other words from rent
- rent·a·bil·i·ty, noun
- rent·a·ble, adjective
- un·rent·a·ble, adjective
Words Nearby rent
Other definitions for rent (2 of 2)
simple past tense and past participle of rend.
Origin of rent
2Other words for rent
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How to use rent in a sentence
It wasn’t just a question of how the restaurant was going to pay rent month-to-month, but also how they could afford to pay what would amount to more than $30,000 in missed rent at the end of the year.
Is the Government Just Going to Watch the Restaurant Industry Die? | Elazar Sontag | August 28, 2020 | EaterSherry told the Blade she and other tenants paid their rent by the week.
New Orleans shelter to be ‘forever home’ for homeless trans people | Michael K. Lavers | August 27, 2020 | Washington BladeIn addition to offering vans for rent, it’s open to members who already have their own vans.
If a housing authority brings in fewer dollars from rent payments, it doesn’t get more money.
She Was Sued Over Rent She Didn’t Owe. It Took Seven Court Dates to Prove She Was Right. | by Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette, and Talia Buford and Beena Raghavendran, ProPublica | August 25, 2020 | ProPublicaStruggling restaurants say it’s a lifeline, letting them rehire bartenders, pay rent and reestablish relationships with customers.
Number of states allowing to-go cocktails has surged from 2 to 33 during coronavirus | Lee Clifford | August 24, 2020 | Fortune
The first 30 years of his life, he helped his father build and then rent out Rockefeller Center at a difficult time.
And actual vote-buying is a pretty low-rent form of corruption anyway.
Undo Citizens United? We’d Only Scratch the Surface | Jedediah Purdy | November 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe winter air is rent with cries from thousands of puffed up lips, begging to be let in.
Squeezing what rent he could from the tenants, Washington moved on.
The journey began well, as Washington managed to collect some rent from war-ravaged tenants in Cumberland.
rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockA fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockYou may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockHe wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.
Glances at Europe | Horace GreeleyThe high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen Leacock
British Dictionary definitions for rent (1 of 2)
/ (rɛnt) /
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 rent mainly US and Canadian available for use and occupation subject to the payment of rent
(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
(intr often foll by at) to be let or rented (for a specified rental)
Origin of rent
1Derived forms of rent
- rentability, noun
- rentable, adjective
British Dictionary definitions for rent (2 of 2)
/ (rɛnt) /
a slit or opening made by tearing or rending; tear
a breach or division, as in relations
the past tense and past participle of rend
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