rent

Meanings

Noun

• A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
• A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
• A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
• An object for which rent is charged or paid.
• Income; revenue.
• A tear or rip in some surface.
• A division or schism.

Verb

• To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
• To grant occupation in return for rent.
• To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
• To be leased or let for rent.
• Past of rend

Adjective

• That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Origin

• From Middle English rent, rente, from Old English renta, from Old French rente and Medieval Latin renta, both from Vulgar Latin *rendere, from Latin reddere, present active infinitive of reddō.
• From Middle English renten. Variant form of renden.