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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.

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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.

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