rent
Part of speech: noun
verb
adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: economics
sciences
video-games
Etymology: From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.
Inflected forms:
form: rents
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: rents
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: renting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: rented
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: rented
pos: verb
tags: past
form: more rent
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most rent
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I am asking £300 a week rent.
This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.
We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent
gloss: A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.
gloss: An object for which rent is charged or paid.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Income; revenue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
gloss: An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
gloss: To grant a lease in return for rent.
pos: verb
tags: informal
transitive
examples: We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
gloss: To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To be leased or let for rent.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
gloss: That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
pos: adj
examples: Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had to all appearance been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.
Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.
Related words: hire
Derived words: antirent
base rent
black rent
chief rent
dry rent
economic rent
forerent
for rent
ground rent
high-rent
liferent
live rent-free in someone's head
live rent-free in someone's mind
low-rent
pay the rent
peppercorn rent
quasi-rent
quit-rent
quit rent
rack-rent
rack rent
rental
rentback
rent boy
rentcharge
rent control
rent-controlled
rent-free
rent freeze
Renthead
renthouse
renting
rentless
rent money
rent party
rent review
rent roll
rent seck
rent-seeker
rent-seeking
rent seeking
rent-stabilized
rent strike
water-rent
white rent
overrent
rentability
rentable
rent-a-car
rent-a-cop
rent-a-crowd
rent-a-dread
rent-a-gob
rent-a-john
rent-a-mob
rent-a-mouth
rent-a-quote
rent-a-thug
rent-a-womb
rentee
renter
rentoid
rentor
rent out
rent-to-own
rentvest
rerent
subrent
unrented
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: أُجْرَة
roman: ʔujra
lang: Armenian
word: վարձ
roman: varj
lang: Azerbaijani
word: kirayə
lang: Basque
word: akura
lang: Belarusian
word: прака́т
roman: prakát
lang: Belarusian
word: рэ́нта
roman: rénta
lang: Bulgarian
word: на́ем
roman: náem
lang: Bulgarian
word: ре́нта
roman: rénta
lang: Catalan
word: lloguer
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 租費 /租费
roman: zūfèi
lang: Czech
word: nájemné
lang: Czech
word: nájem
lang: Danish
word: leje
lang: Finnish
word: vuokra
lang: French
word: location
lang: German
word: Miete
lang: German
word: Mietzins
lang: Greek
word: ενοίκιο
roman: enoíkio
lang: Greek
word: μίσθωμα
roman: místhoma
lang: Hungarian
word: bérleti díj
lang: Irish
word: cíos
lang: Italian
word: canone di locazione
lang: Italian
word: nolo
lang: Italian
word: pigione
lang: Japanese
word: 借り賃
roman: karichin
lang: Korean
word: 차임
roman: chaim
lang: Central Kurdish
word: کرێ
roman: krê
lang: Latvian
word: noma
lang: Macedonian
word: наемнина
roman: naemnina
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Rent
lang: Portuguese
word: renda
lang: Portuguese
word: aluguel
lang: Romanian
word: rentă
lang: Russian
word: пла́та за прока́т
roman: pláta za prokát
lang: Russian
word: прока́т
roman: prokát
lang: Russian
word: ре́нта
roman: rénta
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: màl
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: најамнѝна
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: najamnìna
lang: Sicilian
word: renna
lang: Slovak
word: nájomné
lang: Slovak
word: nájom
lang: Slovene
word: najemnina
lang: Swedish
word: hyra
lang: Telugu
word: అద్దె
roman: adde
lang: Thai
word: ค่าเช่า
roman: kâa-châo
lang: Ukrainian
word: прока́т
roman: prokát
lang: Ukrainian
word: ре́нта
roman: rénta
lang: Walloon
word: louwaedje