rent

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   let for money

   We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad

2. 2
   noun

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

   I am asking £300 a week rent.

3. 3
   noun

   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.

4. 4
   noun

   Income; revenue.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

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

6. 6
   verb

   To grant a lease in return for rent.

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

7. 7
   verb

   To be leased or let for rent.

   The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

8. 8
   noun

   A tear or rip in some surface.

   [O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.

Etymology

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.