rent

(noun, verb)

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

Similar word(s): rip, split

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

Similar word(s): lease, let

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.