# rent

Pronunciation: say "RENT" /ɹɛnt/

## Verb

1. To pay an owner for the use of something for a period, such as a home, a car, or equipment.
   - Simple: To pay money to use a home or a thing that belongs to someone else for a time.
   - _The couple rent a two-bedroom apartment downtown._
   - _She rented an office space for her new business._
3. To be leased or let out in exchange for rent.
   - Simple: To be offered for use in exchange for money paid at regular times.
   - _The corner unit rents for more than the others because of its view._
   - _Beach houses here rent by the week, not the night._
4. To grant a lease of property to a tenant in return for rent.
   - Simple: To let someone use your property in return for regular payments.
   - _The owners rent their spare cottage to vacationers each year._
   - _She rented the basement apartment to a young couple._
7. Simple past and past participle of rend. — simple past and past participle of rend
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of rend.
   - _A sudden scream rent the silence of the night._
   - _Lightning had rent the old oak from top to bottom, leaving two blackened halves._

## Noun

2. A regular payment made to an owner for the use of a property, or sometimes of equipment or a service.
   - Simple: Money you pay regularly to use a home or building, or sometimes a thing, that someone else owns.
   - _Their monthly rent covers both the apartment and a parking space._
   - _Rising rent forced the family to look for cheaper housing._
5. Income earned simply from holding a valuable right, such as an exclusive license, quota, or charter that limits competition.
   - Simple: Extra profit earned just from holding a special right, such as a license that stops others from competing.
   - _Economists argued that the import quota handed established producers a sizable rent._
   - _The monopoly's rent came not from effort but from its exclusive charter._
6. An opening torn or ripped in a surface, especially cloth.
   - Simple: A tear or rip in a surface, such as cloth or paper.
   - _The storm left a jagged rent in the sail._
   - _A rent in the canvas let rainwater into the tent._
8. A division or schism, especially one splitting a group or community.
   - Simple: A deep split or break that divides people or groups.
   - _The scandal opened a rent in the party that never fully healed._
   - _The bitter vote over the merger opened a rent in the union that took a generation to close._

## Adjective

9. Torn or ripped; having been split open.
   - Simple: Torn open or ripped apart.
   - _Soldiers returned in rent uniforms after the long campaign._
   - _The rent sails could no longer catch the wind._

## Noun

10. Income or revenue; money received as earnings. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Money that comes in to you as income or earnings.

## Other meanings

- (noun) An object that is hired out, for which rent is charged or paid.
- (noun) In a multi-user dungeon, an amount of virtual currency a player pays to preserve their character, inventory, and progress between gameplay sessions.

## Origin

The root is Latin "reddere," from which Early Medieval Latin eventually formed "rendita"; Old French turned that into "rente," and Middle English borrowed it as "rent" or "rente."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/rent (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).