rent
See also: Rent
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō.
NounEdit
rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)
- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- I am asking £100 a week rent.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 17, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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.
- A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- (obsolete) Income; revenue.
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:
- [Bacchus] a wastor was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
- 1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:
- So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Finnish: ränttü
TranslationsEdit
payment made by a tenant
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payment made for the use of equipment or a service
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VerbEdit
rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)
- (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
- (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
- (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
- (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
TranslationsEdit
to occupy premises in exchange for rent
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to grant occupation in return for rent
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obtain/have temporary possession of an object such as a movie
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See alsoEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English renten (“to tear”). Variant form of renden.
NounEdit
rent (plural rents)
- A tear or rip in some surface.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.
- 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:
- 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.
- 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10
- A division or schism.
- 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:
- […] 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:
TranslationsEdit
a tear or rip
a division or schism between two things.
VerbEdit
rent
- simple past tense and past participle of rend
AdjectiveEdit
rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)
- That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
- 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure[1]:
- 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.
AnagramsEdit
DanishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rent
AdverbEdit
rent
- purely (morally)
- purely (excluding other possibility)
- quite, completely
Derived termsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
rent
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of rennen
- (archaic) plural imperative of rennen
Norwegian BokmålEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rent
AdverbEdit
rent
VerbEdit
rent
- past participle of renne
ReferencesEdit
- “ren” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
VerbEdit
rent
- past participle of renna
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
rent
- absolute indefinite neuter form of ren.