Rent

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English

Noun

Rent (plural Rents)
  1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
  2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  3. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
    A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.

Verb

Rent (third-person singular simple present Rents, present participle Renting, simple past and past participle Rented)

  1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
  3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money/rent.

Noun

Rent (plural Rents)
  1. A tear or rip in some surface.
  2. A division or schism between two things.

Verb

rent

  1. Simple past tense and past participle of rend.

Thesaurus

abrasion, abysm, abyss, aggravated, arroyo, bareboat charter, blemish, box canyon, breach, break, breakage, broach, broken, burn, burned, burst, busted, canyon, cavity, chafe, chap, charter, chasm, check, checked, chimney, chink, chinky, chip, chipped, cleave, cleft, cleuch, clough, cloven, col, concussion, coulee, couloir, crack, cracked, crackle, cranny, craze, crazed, crevasse, crevice, cut, cut apart, cut open, cwm, damaged, defile, dehiscent, dell, deteriorated, dike, dispart, ditch, divaricate, divide, donga, draw, embittered, exacerbated, excavation, farm, farm out, fault, fee, fissure, fissured, fissury, flash burn, flaw, flume, fly open, fracture, fray, frazzle, furrow, gall, gap, gape, gaping, gappy, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, harmed, hire, hire out, hiring, hole, hurt, impaired, imperfect, in bits, in pieces, in shards, in shreds, incise, incision, injured, injury, irritated, job, joint, kloof, lacerate, lacerated, laceration, lay open, leak, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, lesion, let, let off, let out, mangled, moat, mortal wound, mutilated, mutilation, notch, nullah, ope, open, open up, opening, part, pass, passage, puncture, quartered, quitrent, rack rent, ragged, ravine, rent charge, rent out, rent-roll, rental, rift, rime, rimose, rimulose, rip, rive, riven, run, rupture, ruptured, scald, scalded, scale, schism, scissure, scorch, scorched, scrape, scratch, scuff, seam, second-degree burn, separate, severed, shattered, shredded, slash, slashed, slice, slit, slot, smashed, sore, splinter, splintered, split, spread, spread out, spring open, sprung, stab, stab wound, sublease, sublet, subrent, swing open, tap, tattered, tear, tear open, the worse for, third-degree burn, throw open, torn, trauma, trench, underlet, valley, void, wadi, weakened, worse, worse off, worsened, wound, wounds immedicable, wrench

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Old French rente, from Vulgar Latin rendere (“to render”).

Etymology 2

Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.

Translations

Noun

payment made by a tenant
payment made for the use of equipment or a service

Verb

to occupy premises in exchange for rent
to grant occupation in return for rent
obtain/have temporary possession of an object such as a movie

Noun

a tear or rip

Anagrams

Dutch

Verb

Rent

  1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen.
  2. plural imperative of rennen.

Pronunciation

Swedish

Adjective

Rent

  1. absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.

Adverb

Rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

  1. cleanly
  2. purely
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