rent

• enPR: rĕnt, IPA^(key): /ɹɛnt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō.

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.

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.

4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.
   • Gower

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

   • Alexander Pope

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

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.
4. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

   The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

• hire

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

rent (plural rents)

1. A tear or rip in some surface.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.

2. A division or schism.
   • 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:

     […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.

rent

1. simple past tense and past participle of rend

• tern, tren

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rent

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

rent

1. neuter singular of ren

rent

1. purely

rent

1. past participle of renne

• “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

rent

1. past participle of renna

rent

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.

rent (comparative renare, superlative renast)

1. cleanly
2. purely