Rent

/ˈɹɛnt/ · noun

Meaning

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property..

Definitions by Sense

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
2. A similar payment for the use of a product, 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.
4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.
6. (video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
7. (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
8. (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.

Example Sentences

I am asking £300 a week rent.

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.

We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent

A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.

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

I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.

We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.

The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

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Antonyms for rent

Related Words

Word Forms

• rents
• renting
• rented
• more rent
• most rent

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