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rent (rent)

noun

  1. a stated return or payment for the temporary possession or use of a house, land, or other property, made, usually at fixed intervals, by the tenant or user to the owner
  2. Obsolete
    1. real estate or other property yielding an income
    2. income; revenue
  3. Econ.
    1. income from the use of land
    2. an additional amount paid or accruing to the owner of an economic resource, as a tract of land, that is the result of some special or unique attribute, as a desirable location

Etymology: ME < OFr rente < LL *rendita (pp. of *rendere: see render), for L reddita (pecunia), paid (money)

transitive verb

    1. to get temporary possession and use of (a house, land, etc.) by paying rent
    2. to get the temporary use of (a car, tool, furniture, etc.) by paying a fee
  1. to give temporary possession and use of in return for the payment of rent or a fee; lease or let: often with out

intransitive verb

  1. ☆ to be leased or let for rent or a fee
  2. to lease or let a place or thing

Related Forms:

rent Idioms

for rent

available to be rented
rent2 definition

rent (rent)

transitive verb, intransitive verb

rent3 definition

rent (rent)

noun

  1. a hole or gap made by rending or tearing, as a torn place in cloth, a fissure in the earth, etc.
  2. a breach of relations, as between persons or in an organized group; schism

Etymology: n. use of obs. or dial. rent, var. of rend

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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