rent

Meaning

Noun

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
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.
4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.

Verb

1. To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
2. (informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.
3. To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
4. (informal) To be leased or let for rent.

Verb

simple past and past participle of rend

Adj

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Concepts

rent

hire

lease

split

tear

rental

torn

charter

let

rip

crack

slit

hole

cleft

borrow

fissure

slot

broken

engage

rift

economic rent

tax

fee

laceration

rent out

crevice

fare

tribute

charge

wages

divided

cut

gap

leasehold

snag

chink

fracture

revenue

cracked

broken down

take

hired

rental payment

renting

let out

flaw

rupture

interest

wage

hire out

tenant

ratepayer

taxpayer

cavity

severed

fractured

shell

buy on credit

have a loan

cover charge

loan charges

charges

rental fee

hold possession

payment

sublease

sublet

pay

salary

bored

pierced

splintered

abyss

bitten

hurt

injured

wounded

chopped

riven

burst

ground

broken open

split asunder

hold by lease

lacerated

cost of transportation

freight

transport charges

transport cost

hack

mercenary

rive

custom

puncture

chap

chapped

fissured

gaping

age

cleavage

fission

scission

tearing

schism

sect

house rent

residential rental

nick

tiar

crevasse

fissuring

renter

cost

income

dual

rentage

ladder

run

allow

permit

honors

leasing

tenancy

blank

cranny

interstice

lacuna

lacunae

loophole

mouth

opening

space

space character

vista

fair

lease out

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɛnt/

Etymology

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.