Uk English Meaning of rent

rent

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Definitions and Meaning of rent in English

Wordnet

rent (n)

a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

Wordnet

rent (v)

let for money

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

engage for service under a term of contract

hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Webster

rent (imp. & p. p.)

of Rend

Webster

rent (v. i.)

To rant.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Webster

rent ()

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

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rent (n.)

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil; the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the margin of cultivation. Called also economic, / Ricardian, rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.

Webster

rent (v. t.)

To tear. See Rend.

FAQs About the word rent

rent

a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service, an opening made forcibly as by pulling

Slash,slit,tear,fracture,gash,incision,injury,Laceration,rip,score

No antonyms found.

rensselaerite => rensselaerite, renownless => unknown, renownful => renowned, renowner => renowned, renownedly => renownedly,