Rent
[rent] or [rɛnt]
Definition
(noun.) the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; 'he gave the envelope a vigorous rip'.
(noun.) a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.
(verb.) let for money; 'We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad'.
(verb.) hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.
Editor: Mary--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Rend
(v. i.) To rant.
(-) imp. & p. p. of Rend.
(n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
(n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
(v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
(n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
(n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
(n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
(n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
(n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
(v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Typist: Phil
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Break, breach, fissure, crack, rift, cleft, gap, opening, flaw, rupture, disrupture, disruption, fracture, laceration, dilaceration, tear, solution of continuity.
Typist: Paul
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Laceration, rupture, fissure, divulsion, schism, solution
ANT:Suture, junction, union, continuity, integrity, reparation, redintegration,reunion, consolidation
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Definition
pa.t. and pa.p. of rend.
n. annual payment in return for the use of property held of another esp. houses and lands: revenue.—v.t. to hold or occupy by paying rent: to let or to hire for a rent.—v.i. to be let for rent: to endow.—adj. Rent′able.—ns. Rent′al a schedule or account of rents with the tenants' names &c.: a rent-roll: rent; Rent′aller; Rent′-charge a rent on a conveyance of land in fee simple; Rent′-day the day on which rents are paid; Rente (Fr.) annual income; Rent′er one who holds by paying rent for; Rent′er-ward′en the warden of a company who receives rents.—adj. Rent′-free without payment of rent.—ns. Rent′-gath′erer a collector of rents; Rent′-roll a roll or account of rents: a rental or schedule of rents.
n. an opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear: a schism as a rent in a church.
Editor: Nancy
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you rent a house, is a sign that you will enter into new contracts, which will prove profitable. To fail to rent out property, denotes that there will be much inactivity in business. To pay rent, signifies that your financial interest will be satisfactory. If you can't pay your rent, it is unlucky for you, as you will see a falling off in trade, and social pleasures will be of little benefit.
Checker: Sumner
Examples
- She had been all sweetness and kindness, always thankful, always gentle, even when Mrs. Clapp lost her own temper and pressed for the rent. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Barren timber for building is of great value in a populous and well-cultivated country, and the land which produces it affords a considerable rent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He is apt to denominate, however, his whole gain, profit, and thus confounds rent with profit, at least in common language. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The rent of land not only varies with its fertility, whatever be its produce, but with its situation, whatever be its fertility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those other parts of the produce of land, however, which afterwards afford rent, do not afford it always. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Rent, even where coals afford one, has generally a smaller share in their price than in that of most other parts of the rude produce of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There was an execution put into our house, for rent. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Private enterprise, therefore, so far from bothering about the public need of housing, did nothing but corner and speculate in rents and sub-letting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You'd be poor yourself if you didn't get your rents. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Avoid all openings or rents in the paper. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Ground-rents seem, in this respect, a more proper subject of peculiar taxation, than even the ordinary rent of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- First, in ancient times, almost all rents were paid in kind; in a certain quantity of corn, cattle, poultry, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- There are tremendous sarcasms against a landlord not a hundred miles from Middlemarch, who receives his own rents, and makes no returns. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Rents would go down. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- About three years afterward, it occurred to me that I had not heard at all from the man who had rented this machinery, so I thought I would go over to Newark and see how things were going. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A large shop was rented in Newark, equipped with $25,000 worth of machinery, and Edison was given full charge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was not rented from the church, nor from the nobles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She would officially succeed to the chamber she had rented so long. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The man from whom Bell rented his workshop was Charles Williams, himself a manufacturer of electrical supplies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I had rented a small shop in Newark, on the top floor of a padlock factory, by the month. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A municipal lodging house for women is something of a substitute for the wretched rented room. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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