rent
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Old French rente, from Vulgar Latin rendere (“to render”).
Noun [edit]
rent (plural rents)
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- (economics) 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.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- (obsolete) income; revenue
- Gower
- [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
- Alexander Pope
- So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
- Gower
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
payment made by a tenant
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payment made for the use of equipment or a service
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Verb [edit]
rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Translations [edit]
to occupy premises in exchange for rent
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to grant occupation in return for rent
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obtain/have temporary possession of an object such as a movie
Etymology 2 [edit]
Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.
Noun [edit]
rent (plural rents)
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- A division or schism.
Translations [edit]
a tear or rip
Verb [edit]
rent
- simple past tense and past participle of rend
Anagrams [edit]
Dutch [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
rent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
- plural imperative of rennen
Swedish [edit]
Adjective [edit]
rent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.
Adverb [edit]
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