rent
noun
1. a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
Definition categories: possession
2. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
Similar word(s): rip, snag, split, tear
Definition categories: object, gap, opening
3. the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
Definition categories: possession, issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield
4. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
Definition categories: act, tear
Sentences with rent as a noun:
- A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
verb
1. let for money
- We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad
Similar word(s): lease
Definition categories: social, contract, undertake
2. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
Definition categories: possession, give
3. engage for service under a term of contract
- Let's rent a car
Similar word(s): charter, engage, hire, lease, take
Definition categories: possession, acquire, get
4. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
Similar word(s): charter, hire, lease
Definition categories: social, contract, undertake
Sentences with rent as a verb:
- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.