rent

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.4 Anagrams 2 Dutch 2.1 Verb 3 Swedish 3.1 Adjective 3.2 Adverb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: rĕnt, IPA: /rɛnt/, SAMPA: /rEnt/

  Rhymes: -ɛnt

[edit] Etymology 1

Old French rente, from Vulgar Latin rendere (“‘to render’”).

[edit] Noun

rent (plural rents)

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
3. (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.

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[edit] Verb

to rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)

1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

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[edit] Etymology 2

Middle English renten (“‘to tear’”). Variant form of renden.

[edit] Noun

rent (plural rents)

1. A tear or rip in some surface.
2. A division or schism between two things.

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rent

1. Simple past tense and past participle of rend.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: enrt
• tern
• tren

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[edit] Dutch

[edit] Verb

rent

1. third-person singular present tense of rennen

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[edit] Adjective

rent

1. see ren

[edit] Adverb

rent

1. cleanly
2. purely