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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RENT, pp. of rend. Torn asunder; split or burst by violence; torn.
RENT, n. [from rend.
1. A fissure; a break or breach made by force; as a rent made in the earth, in a rock or in a garment.
2. A schism; a separation; as a rent in the church.
RENT, v.t. To tear. [See Rend.]
RENT, v.i. To rant. [Not in use.]
RENT, n.
A sum of money, or a certain amount of other valuable thing, issuing yearly from lands or tenements; a compensation or return, in the nature of an acknowledgment, for the possession of a corporeal inheritance.
Rents, at common law, are of three kinds; rent-service, rent-charge, and rent-seek. Rent-service is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distress for rent in arrear; rent-seek, dry rent, is rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress. There are also rents of assize, certain established rents of free-holders and copy-holders of manors, which cannot be varied; called also quit-rents. These when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents, or black mail. Rack-rent is a rent of the full value of the tenement, or near it. A fee farm rent is a rent-charge issuing out of an estate in fee, of at least one fourth of the value of the lands at the time of its reservation.
RENT, v.t.
1. To lease; to grant the possession and enjoyment of lands or tenements for a consideration in the nature of rent. The owner of an estate or house rents it to a tenant for a term of years.
2. To take and hold by lease the possession of land or a tenement, for a consideration in the nature of rent. The tenant rents his estate for a year.
RENT, v.i. To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate or a tenement rents for five hundred dollars a year.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
2: an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings" [syn: rip, rent, snag, split, tear]
3: the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions [syn: economic rent, rent]
4: the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip" [syn: rent, rip, split] v
1: let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad" [syn: rent, lease]
2: grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners" [syn: lease, let, rent]
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?" [syn: lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take]
4: hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services [syn: rent, hire, charter, lease]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English rente, from Anglo-French, payment, income, from Vulgar Latin *rendita, from feminine of *renditus, past participle of *rendere to yield — more at render Date: 12th century 1. property (as a house) rented or for rent 2. a. a usually fixed periodical return made by a tenant or occupant of property to the owner for the possession and use thereof; especially an agreed sum paid at fixed intervals by a tenant to the landlord b. the amount paid by a hirer of personal property to the owner for the use thereof 3. a. the portion of the income of an economy (as of a nation) attributable to land as a factor of production in addition to capital and labor b. economic rent II. verb Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to grant the possession and enjoyment of in exchange for rent 2. to take and hold under an agreement to pay rent intransitive verb 1. to be for rent 2. a. to obtain the possession and use of a place or article in exchange for rent b. to allow the possession and use of property in exchange for rent Synonyms: see hire • rentability noun • rentable adjective III. past and past participle of rend IV. noun Etymology: English dialect rent to rend, from Middle English, alteration of renden — more at rend Date: 1535 1. an opening made by or as if by rending 2. a split in a party or organized group ; schism 3. an act or instance of rending

Britannica Concise

In common usage, payment made in return for the right to use property belonging to another. In classical economics, rent was the income gained from cultivated or improved land after the deduction of all production costs. In modern economic usage, rent is the difference between the total return to a factor of production (land, labor, capital) and its supply price, the minimum amount necessary to attain its services. Rent plus opportunity cost make up the total income paid to a productive resource. Efforts made by a resource owner to obtain monopoly profit is considered rent-seeking behavior.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a tenant's periodical payment to an owner or landlord for the use of land or premises. 2 payment for the use of a service, equipment, etc. --v. 1 tr. (often foll. by from) take, occupy, or use at a rent (rented a cottage from the local farmer). 2 tr. (often foll. by out) let or hire (a thing) for rent. 3 intr. (foll. by at) be let or hired out at a specified rate (the land rents at £100 per month). Phrases and idioms: for rent US available to be rented. rent-a- (in comb.) often joc. denoting availability for hire (rent-a-van; rent-a-crowd). rent-boy a young male prostitute. rent-free with exemption from rent. rent-roll the register of a landlord's lands etc. with the rents due from them; the sum of one's income from rent. Etymology: ME f. OF rente f. Rmc (as RENDER) 2. n. 1 a large tear in a garment etc. 2 an opening in clouds etc. 3 a cleft, fissure, or gorge. Etymology: obs. rent var. of REND 3. past and past part. of REND.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent, n. (Polit. Econ.) (a) 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, or 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. (b) 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rend Rend (r[e^]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rent (r?nt); p. pr. & vb. n. Rending.] [AS. rendan, hrendan; cf. OFries. renda, randa, Fries. renne to cut, rend, Icel. hrinda to push, thrust, AS. hrindan; or cf. Icel. r?na to rob, plunder, Ir. rannaim to divide, share, part, W. rhanu, Armor. ranna.] 1. To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to tear asunder; to split; to burst; as, powder rends a rock in blasting; lightning rends an oak. The dreadful thunder Doth rend the region. --Shak. 2. To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force. An empire from its old foundations rent. --Dryden. I will surely rend the kingdom from thee. --1 Kings xi. 11. To rap and rend. See under Rap, v. t., to snatch. Syn: To tear; burst; break; rupture; lacerate; fracture; crack; split.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent (r?nt), v. i. To rant. [R. & Obs.] --Hudibras.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent, imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent, n. [From Rend.] 1. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear. See what a rent the envious Casca made. --Shak. 2. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church. Syn: Fissure; breach; disrupture; rupture; tear; dilaceration; break; fracture.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent, v. t. To tear. See Rend. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent, n. [F. rente, LL. renta, fr. L. reddita, fem. sing. or neut. pl. of redditus, p. p. of reddere to give back, pay. See Render.] 1. Income; revenue. See Catel. [Obs.] ``Catel had they enough and rent.'' --Chaucer. [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent. --Gower. So bought an annual rent or two, And liv'd, just as you see I do. --Pope. 2. Pay; reward; share; toll. [Obs.] Death, that taketh of high and low his rent. --Chaucer. 3. (Law) 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. Note: The term rent is also popularly applied to compensation for the use of certain personal chattels, as a piano, a sewing machine, etc. Black rent. See Blackmail, 3. Forehand rent, rent which is paid in advance; foregift. Rent arrear, rent in arrears; unpaid rent. --Blackstone. Rent charge (Law), a rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple, or granted out of lands by deed; -- so called because, by a covenant or clause in the deed of conveyance, the land is charged with a distress for the payment of it. --Bouvier. Rent roll, a list or account of rents or income; a rental. Rent seck (Law), a rent reserved by deed, but without any clause of distress; barren rent. A power of distress was made incident to rent seck by Statute 4 George II. c. 28. Rent service (Eng. Law), rent reserved out of land held by fealty or other corporeal service; -- so called from such service being incident to it. White rent, a quitrent when paid in silver; -- opposed to black rent.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rent Rent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] [F. renter. See Rent, n.] 1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rents, renting, rented) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you rent something, you regularly pay its owner a sum of money in order to be able to have it and use it yourself. She rents a house with three other girls... He left his hotel in a rented car. VERB: V n, V-ed 2. If you rent something to someone, you let them have it and use it in exchange for a sum of money which they pay you regularly. She rented rooms to university students. VERB: V n to n • Rent out means the same as rent. He rented out his house while he worked abroad... He repaired the boat, and rented it out for $150. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. Rent is the amount of money that you pay regularly to use a house, flat, or piece of land. She worked to pay the rent while I went to college... N-VAR 4. Rent is the past tense and past participle of rend. 5. see also ground rent, peppercorn rent

Easton's Bible Dictionary

(Isa. 3:24), probably a rope, as rendered in the LXX. and Vulgate and Revised Version, or as some prefer interpreting the phrase, "girdle and robe are torn [i.e., are 'a rent'] by the hand of violence."

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. 1. Break, breach, separation, fissure, crack, crevice, rift, cleft, gap, opening, flaw, rupture, disrupture, disruption, fracture, laceration, dilaceration, divulsion, tear, solution of continuity. 2. Schism, separation. 3. Income, revenue (from land or tenements). II. v. a. 1. Lease, let, hire. 2. Hold by paying rent, lease, hire. III. v. n. Be leased, be let.

Moby Thesaurus

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