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1[rent]
noun
1.
a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
2.
a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner in return for the use of machinery, equipment, etc.
3.
Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate.
4.
profit or return derived from any differential advantage in production.
5.
Obsolete. revenue or income.
verb (used with object)
6.
to grant the possession and enjoyment of (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent from the tenant or lessee. (often followed by out).
7.
to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner.

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Renting is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
verb (used without object)
8.
to be leased or let for rent: This apartment rents cheaply.
9.
to lease or let property.
10.
to take possession of and use property by paying rent: She rents from a friend.
11.
for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store: an apartment for rent.

Origin:
1125–75; (noun) Middle English rente < Old French < Vulgar Latin *rendita, feminine past participle of *rendere (see render1); (v.) Middle English renten < Old French renter, derivative of rente

rent·a·bil·i·ty, noun
rent·a·ble, adjective
un·rent·a·ble, adjective


7. lease, let. See hire.

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rent

2[rent]
noun
1.
an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
2.
a breach of relations or union between individuals or groups; schism.
verb
3.
simple past tense and past participle of rend.

Origin:
1325–75 for v. sense; 1525–35 for def. 1; Middle English; see rend


1. tear, split, rift, cleft, rip, rupture, fracture. 2. division, separation.

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rent
"torn place," 1530s, noun use of M.E. renten "to tear, rend" (mid-14c.), variant of renden (see rend).
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