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Rent

noun

A payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear. "She had snags in her stockings"

The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions. Synonym: economic rent.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something. Synonyms: rip, split.

verb

(past & past part. rented; pres. part. renting)

Let for money. Synonym: lease.

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract. Synonyms: lease, let.

Engage for service under a term of contract. Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take. "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services. Synonyms: charter, hire, lease.

Rend

verb

(past & past part. rent; pres. part. rending)

Tear or be torn violently. Synonyms: pull, rip, rive. "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"

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"Rent" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Ambassador delivering it, but gave not the slightest information respecting the person to whom it had been delivered (apart, that is, from his or her name), was of infinitely less value in the eyes of a French officer than a receipt for rent or a Parisian tradesman's bill. [That was forty-three years ago. The British passport, however, remains to-day as ...

— My Days of Adventure - The Fall of France, 1870-71 • Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

... And when you have you'll probably wish you hadn't. But don't let that prejudice you. It's the inside of the head that counts. That boy's got a perfect genius for cottage property and real tact with it. Only last week he raised an old woman's rent a shilling a week, and when he left she gave him a rosebud and said she'd pray for him. It takes some doing—a thing like that. Now, I want a public career for that boy, and if he marries you he can't miss it. Do you know what Mr. Bunting said to me ...

— Marge Askinforit • Barry Pain

... on studying him, especially in the documents and materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more distinctly; and he set about mounting, slowly, ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... advise you to do it," rejoined the squire, hastily. "You wouldn't make enough to pay your rent, or ...

— Five Hundred Dollars - or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret • Horatio Alger

... cumbrous, Robinson Crusoe sort of affair, kept in the kitchen and used by the servant, and a smaller one, belonging to Benson's daughter. I have examined both. The covering of the girl's umbrella is complete. Ann's is rent in several places, but the covering is blue, whereas the piece of umbrella covering we found adhering to Mr. Glenthorpe's window is black. While I was questioning Ann she suddenly remembered that there ...

— The Shrieking Pit • Arthur J. Rees

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