Rent

v. let, allow someone to use property in return for regular payments; hire, make regular payments for the use of someone else's property

n. money paid for the use of property; rip, tear, laceration

v. tear, rip, lacerate

Rent may refer to:Renting, a system of payment for the temporary use of something owned by someone elseEconomic rent, in economics, a payment to a factor of production in excess of that which is needed to keep it employed in its current useRent (musical), a stage musical by Jonathan Larson, directed by Michael GreifRent (film), a 2005 movie version of the musical, directed by Chris ColumbusRent (song), a 1980s pop music hit from the Pet Shop BoysThe Rent Collector, a 1921 film starring Oliver Hardy
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This article is about the 1996 Broadway rock opera. For the 2005 film, see Rent (film); for other uses, see Rent. Rent is a rock musical, with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. The musical tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York's Alphabet City in the last days of the Bohemian East Village, under the shadow of AIDS.
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Noun
1. a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property
(hypernym) annuity in advance
(hyponym) ground rent
(derivation) hire, charter, lease
2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
(synonym) rip, snag, split, tear
(hypernym) opening, gap
3. the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
(synonym) economic rent
(hypernym) return, issue, proceeds, take, takings, yield, payoff
4. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
(synonym) rip, split
(hypernym) tear
Verb
1. let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
(synonym) lease
(hypernym) contract, undertake
2. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
(synonym) lease, let
(hypernym) give
(hyponym) sublet, sublease
(see-also) hire out, rent out, farm out
3. engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
(synonym) lease, hire, charter, engage, take
(hypernym) get, acquire
4. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
(synonym) hire, charter, lease
(hypernym) contract, undertake

Verb
1. tear or be torn violently; "The curtain ripped from top to bottom"; "pull the cooked chicken into strips"
(synonym) rip, rive, pull
(hypernym) tear, rupture, snap, bust

v. rush, run, race, romp, scoot, scamper, skitter, nip, pelt, tear

v. yield interest

imp. & p. p. of Rend.
  

(v. t.)
To tear. See Rend.
  

(v. i.)
To rant.
  

(v. i.)
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
  

(n.)
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
  

(n.)
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
  

(n.)
Pay; reward; share; toll.
  

(n.)
Income; revenue. See Catel.
  

(n.)
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
  

(n.)
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
  

(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.
  

(imp. & p. p.)
of Rend