rent

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.

   • I am asking £300 a week rent.
   • This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
   • We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent
2. 2

   A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

3. 3

   A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a…

   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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   1. 4

      An object for which rent is charged or paid.

   2. 5

      Income

      Income; revenue.

      • So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
   3. 6

      An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory,…

      An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.

   4. 7

      To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

      • I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
   5. 8

      To grant a lease in return for rent.

      • We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
   6. 9

      To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

   7. 10

      To be leased or let for rent.

      • The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
   8. 11

      A tear or rip in some surface.

      • [O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.
      • The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
   9. 12

      A division or schism.

      • [T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
   10. 13

       simple past and past participle of rend

   11. 14

       That has been torn or rent

       That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

       • Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.
   12. 15

       A surname.

The neighborhood

• neighborhire