Definition of "rent"

rent¹

/ɹɛnt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural rents
1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
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  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.
  1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
  We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent
  1987, “Rent”, in Actually, performed by Pet Shop Boys
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.
  Quotations
  So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
  1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]
verb
third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented
1. (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
2. (transitive, informal) To grant a lease 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, informal) To be leased or let for rent.

rent²

/ɹɛnt/

noun
plural rents
1. A tear or rip in some surface.
  Quotations
  The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
  1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Chapter 10”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […]
  The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.
  2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81
2. A division or schism.
  Quotations
  […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.
  2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967
verb
1. simple past and past participle of rend
adjective
comparative more rent, superlative most rent
1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
  Quotations
  Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had, to all appearance, been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
  Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.
  1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

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