• enPR: rĕnt, IPA: /ɹɛnt/

rent

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
3. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

   A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.

4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.

   • [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.

   • 1733-1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace:

     So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.

• French: loyer
• German: Miete, Mietzins
• Italian: affitto, fitto
• Portuguese: renda, aluguel
• Russian: квартирный
• Spanish: renta, alquiler, arriendo

• French: location
• German: Miete, Mietzins
• Portuguese: renda, aluguel
• Russian: пла́та за прока́т

rent (rents, present participle renting; past and past participle rented)

1. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

   I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.

2. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

   We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.

3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
4. (intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

   The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

• French: louer
• German: mieten
• Italian: affittare
• Portuguese: alugar
• Russian: снима́ть
• Spanish: alquilar, arrendar, rentar

• French: louer
• German: vermieten
• Italian: affittare
• Portuguese: alugar
• Russian: сдава́ть в аренда
• Spanish: alquilar

• French: louer
• German: mieten
• Italian: noleggiare
• Portuguese: alugar
• Russian: брать напрока́т
• Spanish: alquilar

rent (plural rents)

1. A tear or rip in some surface.
   • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 10

     The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.

2. A division or schism.
   • 2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:

     […] the White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.

• French: déchirure
• German: Riss
• Italian: strappo, squarcio, lacerazione, scissione
• Russian: проре́ха
• Spanish: rasgadura

1. Simple past tense and past participle of rend

1. Surname