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Rent   /rɛnt/   Listen
Rent

noun
1.
A payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.
2.
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.  Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear.  "She had snags in her stockings"
3.
The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions.  Synonym: economic rent.
4.
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.  Synonyms: rip, split.
verb
(past & past part. rented; pres. part. renting)
1.
Let for money.  Synonym: lease.
2.
Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract.  Synonyms: lease, let.
3.
Engage for service under a term of contract.  Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take.  "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
4.
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.  Synonyms: charter, hire, lease.


Rend

verb
(past & past part. rent; pres. part. rending)
1.
Tear or be torn violently.  Synonyms: pull, rip, rive.  "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"



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"Rent" Quotes from Famous Books



... she might lodge there. It was an old dame that owned the hut, and a cross-grained scolding hag she was as ever you saw. At first she would not hear of the Mastermaid's lodging in her house, but at last, for fair words and high rent, the Mastermaid got leave to be there. Now the but was as dark and dirty as a pigsty, so the Mastermaid said she would smarten it up a little, that their house might look inside like other people's. The old hag did not ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
... those of them who are Faroe fishers do you deduct the rent in their accounts also?-When any of the tenants are fishing in our smacks, we deduct the rent from what ...
— Second Shetland Truck System Report • William Guthrie
... the old lady when she saw the Vicar, the tears raining from her eyes, "it cannot be right that this oppression should fall upon us! We had just managed—Heaven knows how, for I'm sure I don't—to pay the Midsummer rent; and now they've come upon us for the rates, and have took away things ...
— The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 1, January, 1891 • Various
... made by the Statutes of the Realm to improve the condition of members of colleges. It seems to have been assumed that the rent of a college farm, like its statutes, could not be altered; but by an Act of Parliament passed in the eighteenth year of Elizabeth, known as Sir Thomas Smith's Act, it was enacted that from thenceforth one-third of the rents were to be paid in wheat and malt; the price of wheat for the purposes ...
— St. John's College, Cambridge • Robert Forsyth Scott
... waves of the sea grow white with the wind; and my heart is sore afraid, lest there come evil news that the city of Susa is emptied of her men. Then should there be heard great wailing of women; and the fine linen of the daughters of Persia, who even now sit at home alone, would be rent for grief. But come, let us sit and take counsel together, for our need is sore, and reckon the chances which of the two hath prevailed—the Persian bow or the spear ...
— Stories from the Greek Tragedians • Alfred Church


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