Rent

Quick meaning: Rent is a noun meaning A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
2. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
3. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
4. (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
5. (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.
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. (obsolete) Income; revenue.

Example Sentences

I am asking £300 a week rent.

The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

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

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

Word Forms

• rents
• renting
• rented

Synonyms for rent

Depending on context, synonyms include engage, take, split, rip, blasted, tear.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lease, charter, hire, take, let, split.

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