Dictionary Definition
rent
Noun
1 a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for
use of some property
2 an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
"there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
[syn: rip, snag, split, tear]
3 the return derived from cultivated land in
excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under
similar conditions [syn: economic
rent]
4 the act of rending or ripping or splitting
something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rip, split]
Verb
1 let for money; "We rented our apartment to
friends while we were abroad" [syn: lease]
2 grant use or occupation of under a term of
contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [syn:
lease, let]
3 engage for service under a term of contract;
"We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car";
"Shall we take a guide in Rome?" [syn: lease, hire, charter, engage, take]
4 hold under a lease or rental agreement; of
goods and services [syn: hire, charter, lease]rend v : tear or be torn
violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the
cooked chicken into strips" [syn: rip, rive, pull] [also: rent]rent See rend
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology 1
etyl fro rente, from rendere.Noun
Translations
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.
Translations
to occupy premises in exchange for rent
Etymology 2
etyl enm renten. Variant form of renden.Translations
a tear or rip
- Spanish: rasgadura
Verb
rent- past of rend
Dutch
Verb
rent- third-person singular present tense of rennen
Swedish
Adjective
rent- see ren
Adverb
rentExtensive Definition
Rent may refer to:
- Renting, a system of payment for the temporary use of something owned by someone else
- Economic rent, in economics, a payment to a factor of production in excess of that which is needed to keep it employed in its current use
- Rent
(musical), a stage musical by Jonathan Larson, directed by
Michael Greif
- Rent (film), a 2005 movie version of the musical, directed by Chris Columbus
- Rent (song), a 1980s pop music hit from the Pet Shop Boys
- The Rent Collector, a 1921 film starring Oliver Hardy
- an abbreviation of rent boy or rentboy, a slang term for a male prostitute
rent in German: Rent
rent in Dutch: Rent
rent in Simple English: Rent
rent in Swedish: Rent
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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