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grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

let for money; of housing

a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic, / Ricardian, rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.

To rant.

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

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

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

To tear. See Rend.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

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.

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

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

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

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic, / Ricardian, rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.

To rant.

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

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

To tear. See Rend.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

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.

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

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

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

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil; the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the margin of cultivation.

A tear; a hole or slit made by rending or tearing, especially in cloth; payment at stated times for the use of property.

To hold in possession by paying for at stated times; hire; as, to rent a house from an owner; to give possession of, in return for regular stated payments; lease; as, to rent a house to a tenant.

Be leased or let; as, the house rents for $1, 000.

An opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear.

Annual payment in return for the use of property held of another, esp. houses and lands.

To hold or occupy by paying rent: to let for a rent.

To be let for rent.

Pa.t. and pa.p. of REND.

A fissure; tear; payment for the use of lands, houses, &c.

To let or occupy for rent.

To obtain or let out for rent; hire.

To be rented or leased.

Imp. & pp. or REND, v.

A hole or slit made by rending.

The payment periodically made for the use of property. rental.

An opening produced by rending or violent separation; a schism; a separation.

A sum of money issuing yearly from lands or tenements.

To be leased or let for rent. See Render.

Did rend.

A tear; an opening caused by a forcible division.

Of rend, which see.

Yearly income; annual payment; the yearly sum paid by an occupier or lessee to a proprietor.

To hold or occupy by the payment of a yearly sum; to lease or let for an annual payment.

n. A fissure; an opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; —a tear; a split; —a schism; a separation.

n. [Latin] A certain periodical profit money, previsions, or labour, issuing out of lands and tenements; rental; revenue; —the stipulated sum paid by a tenant annually, quarterly, monthly, or weekly, for the temporary use and possession of lands, moors, houses, rooms, &c.