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rent

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 fol. by out).

7.	to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner.

–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.

—Idiom

11.	for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store: an apartment for rent.

Origin:
1125–75; (n.) ME rente < OF < VL *rendita, fem. ptp. of *rendere (see render ¹ ); (v.) ME renten < OF renter, deriv. of rente

Related forms:

rent⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

rent⋅a⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
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.	pt. and pp. of rend.

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

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

rend

[rend]

verb, rent, rend⋅ing.

–verb (used with object)

1.	to separate into parts with force or violence: The storm rent the ship to pieces.

2.	to tear apart, split, or divide: a racial problem that is rending the nation.

3.	to pull or tear violently (often fol. by away, off, up, etc.).

4.	to tear (one's garments or hair) in grief, rage, etc.

5.	to disturb (the air) sharply with loud noise.

6.	to harrow or distress (the heart) with painful feelings.

–verb (used without object)

7.	to split or tear something.

8.	to become torn or split.

Origin:
bef. 950; ME renden, OE rendan; c. OFris renda

Related forms:

rend⋅i⋅ble, adjective

Synonyms:
2. rive, sunder, sever, cleave, chop, fracture, rupture. See tear ² .

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rend (rěnd)

v. rent (rěnt) or rend·ed, rend·ing, rends

v. tr.

To tear or split apart or into pieces violently. See Synonyms at tear¹.
To tear (one's garments or hair) in anguish or rage.
To tear away forcibly; wrest.
To pull, split, or divide as if by tearing: "Chip was rent between the impulse to laugh wildly and a bitterness that threatened hot tears" (Louis Auchincloss).
To pierce or disturb with sound: a scream rent the silence.
To cause pain or distress to: tales that rend the heart.

v. intr.
To become torn or split; come apart.

[Middle English renden, from Old English rendan.]

rent¹ (rěnt)

1. Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another.
2. A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.
The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.
The revenue yielded by a piece of land in excess of that yielded by the poorest or least favorably located land under equal market conditions. Also called economic rent.

v. rent·ed, rent·ing, rents

v. tr.

To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.
To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments: rents out TV sets.

v. intr.
To be for rent: The cottage rents for $1,200 a month.

[Middle English rente, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rendita, from feminine past participle of *rendere, to yield, return; see render.]
rent'a·bil'i·ty n., rent'a·ble adj.

rent² (rěnt)

v. A past tense and a past participle of rend.
n.

An opening made by rending; a rip.
A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

rent³ (rěnt)

n. Slang
A parent. Often used in the plural: had to stay home with the rents.

[Short for parent.]

Our Living Language : When young people talk about their rents, that is, their parents, they are using a slang term that is of interest to language historians, if not necessarily thrilling for parents themselves. The term is a prime example of one of the fundamental characteristics of slang, which continually creates novel ways of expressing what are often rather ordinary things (if parents may be considered ordinary things). Slang has recently produced two expressions for "parents" that have gained wide currency—rents and parental units. Both expressions demonstrate slang's use of unusual or creative linguistic means to achieve novelty of expression. While there are many slang terms, such as bod for body or rad for radical, that result from the clipping of unstressed syllables, rents is a clipping that drops a stressed syllable, much like the similar term za, "pizza." The desire to coin new ways of referring to things also leads speakers of slang to use circumlocutions like knuckle sandwich for "punch." Parental units falls into this category. It plays on the jargon of bureaucrats and social science, in which the world is viewed as so much data waiting to be quantified. The appearance of terms such as rents and parental units also shows that all available styles and levels of language can be grist for slang's mill—so long as the material is perceived as irreverent, funny, or just plain cool.

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Rent

Rent\, n. (Polit. Econ.) (a) 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, or 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. (b) 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.

Rent

Rent\ (r?nt), v. i. To rant. [R. & Obs.] --Hudibras.

Rent

Rent\, imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rent

Rent\, n. [From Rend.]

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

See what a rent the envious Casca made. --Shak.

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

Syn: Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.

Rent

Rent\, v. t. To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Rent

Rent\, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.]

1. Income; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] "Catel had they enough and rent." --Chaucer.

[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. --Gower.

So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. --Pope.

2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.]

Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. --Chaucer.

3. (Law) 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.

Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc.

Black rent. See Blackmail, 3.

Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift.

Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. --Blackstone.

Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it. --Bouvier.

Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental.

Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28.

Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it.

White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.

Rent

Rent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] [F. renter. See Rent, n.]

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

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

Rent

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

Language Translation for : rent

Spanish: alquiler,

German: die Miete,

Japanese: 家賃

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rent (1)

"payment for use of property," 1137, from O.Fr. rente, from V.L. *rendita, prop. fem. pp. of rendere "to render" (see render). The verb is attested from 1362, from the noun. Rental (n.) "thing let out for rent" is recorded from 1952, Amer.Eng. Prefix rent-a- first attested 1921, mainly of businesses that rented various makes of car (Rentacar is a trademark registered in U.S. 1924); extended to other "temporary" uses since 1961.

rent (2)

"torn place," 1535, noun use of M.E. renten "to tear, rend" (c.1366), variant of renden (see rend).

Main Entry: rent
Function: noun
1 a : a return made by a tenant or occupant of real property to the owner for possession and use thereof; especially : a sum of money agreed upon between a landlord and tenant for the use of real property b in the civil law of Louisiana : a contract by which one party conveys to another to hold as owner a tract of land or other immovable property in perpetuity in exchange for payment of an annual sum or quantity of fruits c : the amount paid by a hirer of personal property to the owner for the use thereof d : a royalty under a mineral lease
2 : the portion of the income of an economy (as of a nation) attributable to land as a factor of production in addition to capital and labor—for rent : available for use or service in return for payment

Main Entry: rent
Function: transitive verb
1 : to grant the possession and enjoyment of in exchange for rent
2 : to take and hold under an agreement to pay rent intransitive verb 1 : to be for rent
2 a : to obtain use and possession of a place or property in exchange for rent b : to allow the possession and use of property in exchange for rent —rent·er also ren·tor /'ren-t&r/ noun

Rent

(Isa. 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle and robe are torn [i.e., are 'a rent'] by the hand of violence."

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