Definitions for rent

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IPA: /rɛnt/

Rent is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in rent (enrt).

Definitions for 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.
6. an opening made by rending or tearing; slit; fissure.
7. a breach of relations or union between individuals or groups; schism.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of rend.

Idioms

1. for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store:

verb (used with object)

1. to grant the possession and enjoyment of (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent from the tenant or lessee. (often followed by out).
2. to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner.
3. to separate into parts with force or violence:
4. to tear apart, split, or divide:
5. to pull or tear violently (often followed by away, off, up, etc.).
6. to tear (one's garments or hair) in grief, rage, etc.
7. to disturb (the air) sharply with loud noise.
8. to harrow or distress (the heart) with painful feelings.

verb (used without object)

1. to be leased or let for rent:
2. to lease or let property.
3. to take possession of and use property by paying rent:
4. to split or tear something.
5. to become torn or split.

Origin of rent

1125-75; (noun) Middle English rente Old French Vulgar Latin *rendita, feminine past participle of *rendere (see render¹); (v.) Middle English renten Old

Examples for rent

The rest they'll split up into several farms and rent for the present.

I set them for rent to put bread into my children's mouth, and after all I cannot get it!

When I got up I was not able to make my rent out of my land.

The first 30 years of his life, he helped his father build and then rent out Rockefeller Center at a difficult time.

Manhattanites are concerned that a decade of Bloombergian rent increases now threatens their venerable dining scene.

The winter air is rent with cries from thousands of puffed up lips, begging to be let in.

I am a weaver, sir: for my rent they seized my two looms; then I had nothing to do.

Squeezing what rent he could from the tenants, Washington moved on.

The journey began well, as Washington managed to collect some rent from war-ravaged tenants in Cumberland.

We could rent a little house and you'd have hardly anything to do.