What does RENT mean?

Definitions for RENT
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. rentnoun

    a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service

  2. rip, rent, snag, split, tearnoun

    an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

  3. economic rent, rentnoun

    the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

  4. rent, rip, splitverb

    the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

    "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

  5. rent, leaseverb

    let for money

    "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

  6. lease, let, rentverb

    grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

    "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

  7. lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, takeverb

    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?"

  8. rent, hire, charter, leaseverb

    hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Rentnoun

    A break; a laceration.

    Etymology: from rend.

    Thou viper
    Hast cancell’d kindred, made a rent in nature,
    And through her holy bowels gnaw’d thy way,
    Through thy own blood to empire. Dryden.

    He who sees this vast rent in so high a rock, how the convex parts of one side exactly tally with the concave of the other, must be satisfied, that it was the effect of an earthquake. Joseph Addison, Remarks on Italy.

  2. RENTnoun

    Etymology: rente, Fr.

    Idol ceremony,
    What are thy rents? what are thy comings in?
    O ceremony shew me but thy worth! William Shakespeare, Hen. V.

    I bought an annual rent or two,
    And live just as you see I do. Alexander Pope, Epist. of Horace.

    Such is the mould, that the blest tenant feeds
    On precious fruits, and pays his rent in weeds. Edmund Waller.

    Folks in mudwall tenement,
    Present a peppercorn for rent. Matthew Prior.

  3. To Rentverb

    To tear; to lacerate.

    Etymology: rather to rend.

    A time to rent, and a time to sew. Ecclus. iii. 7.

  4. To Rentverb

    Etymology: rather to rend.

    When a servant is called before his master, it is often to know, whether he passed by such a ground, if the old man, who rents it, is in good health. Joseph Addison, Spectator.

  5. To Rentverb

    To roar; to bluster: we still say, a tearing fellow, for a noisy bully.

    He ventur’d to dismiss his fear,
    That partings wont to rent and tear,
    And give the desperatest attack
    To danger still behind its back. Hudibras, p. iii.

Wikipedia

  1. rent

    Rent is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson, loosely based on Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La Bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village in the thriving days of bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1993. This same off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly of an aortic dissection, believed to have been caused by undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, the night before the off-Broadway premiere. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996.On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical. The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008, after 12 years, making it one of the longest-running shows on Broadway. The production grossed over $280 million.The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions. In 2005, it was adapted into a motion picture featuring most of the original cast members.

ChatGPT

  1. rent

    Rent refers to a periodic payment made by a tenant to a landlord for the use or occupation of a property, building, or piece of land. The terms and amount of the payment is usually determined by a lease or rental agreement. It can also refer to an arrangement where the owner of a good or property grants usage to another party in exchange for regular payments.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Rent

    of Rend

  2. Rentverb

    to rant

  3. Rent

    imp. & p. p. of Rend

  4. Rentnoun

    an opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear

  5. Rentnoun

    figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church

  6. Rentverb

    to tear. See Rend

  7. Rentnoun

    income; revenue. See Catel

  8. Rentnoun

    pay; reward; share; toll

  9. Rentnoun

    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

  10. Rentnoun

    to grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it

  11. Rentnoun

    to take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner

  12. Rentverb

    to be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year

  13. Etymology: [F. renter. See Rent, n.]

Wikidata

  1. Rent

    Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. The musical was first seen in a limited three-week workshop production at New York Theatre Workshop in 1994. This same off-Broadway theatre was also the musical's initial home following its official January 25, 1996 opening. The show's creator, Jonathan Larson, died suddenly the night before the off-Broadway premiere. The show won a Pulitzer Prize, and the production was a hit. The musical moved to Broadway's larger Nederlander Theatre on April 29, 1996. On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won a Tony Award for Best Musical among other awards. The Broadway production closed on September 7, 2008 after a 12-year run of 5,123 performances, the ninth longest-running Broadway show at the time. The production grossed over $280 million. The success of the show led to several national tours and numerous foreign productions. In 2005 it was adapted into a motion picture that features most of the original cast members.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Rent

    rent, n. an opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear: a schism, as a rent in a church. [Rend.]

  2. Rent

    rent, n. annual payment in return for the use of property held of another, esp. houses and lands: revenue.—v.t. to hold or occupy by paying rent: to let, or to hire, for a rent.—v.i. to be let for rent: to endow.—adj. Rent′able.—ns. Rent′al, a schedule or account of rents, with the tenants' names, &c.: a rent-roll: rent; Rent′aller; Rent′-charge, a rent on a conveyance of land in fee simple; Rent′-day, the day on which rents are paid; Rente (Fr.), annual income; Rent′er, one who holds by paying rent for; Rent′er-ward′en, the warden of a company who receives rents.—adj. Rent′-free, without payment of rent.—ns. Rent′-gath′erer, a collector of rents; Rent′-roll, a roll or account of rents: a rental or schedule of rents. [Fr. rente—L. reddita (pecunia), money paid—reddĕre, to pay.]

  3. Rent

    rent, pa.t. and pa.p. of rend.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. RENT

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Rent is ranked #72332 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Rent surname appeared 269 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Rent.

    66.5% or 179 total occurrences were White.
    24.5% or 66 total occurrences were Black.
    7.4% or 20 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RENT' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3705

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RENT' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2156

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RENT' in Nouns Frequency: #1220

  4. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'RENT' in Verbs Frequency: #910

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of RENT in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of RENT in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of RENT in a Sentence

  1. Sean Duff:

    Things aren't selling as well as they should, i have three houses I could rent.

  2. Simone Weil:

    Time’s violence rends the soul; by the rent eternity enters.”

  3. Terri Onick:

    My current unemployment will not even pay my rent and we're not even discussing car insurance, we're not talking about electricity and food, i'm hoping that we've reached our actual plateau in Miami. And we'll start to be able to open back up.

  4. Daniel Bornstein:

    What Elon may be doing by not paying the rent is signaling that he is actually interested in renegotiation of the terms of the lease agreement.

  5. Alicia Mazzara:

    The bottom line is that White renters are faring the best for all the structural, systemic and historical reasons with which we are familiar, the most marginalized people were suffering the most and were overrepresented in any way we cut the data, looking at homelessness, rent instability or eviction.

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Translations for RENT

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  • استأجر, أجرةArabic
  • отдавам, наем, заемам, наемам, наема, давам, дам, заема, отдам, рентаBulgarian
  • lloguer, llogarCatalan, Valencian
  • nájem, nájemné, pronajmoutCzech
  • husleje, leje, leje udDanish
  • vermieten, Miete, mietenGerman
  • ενοίκιο, μισθώνω, μίσθωμα, σχίσιμο, ενοικιάζωGreek
  • luo, lui, luigiEsperanto
  • rentar, renta, rasgadura, alquilar, alquiler, arrendarSpanish
  • اجاره دادن, کرایه, کرایه کردن, اجاره, اجاره کردنPersian
  • vuokra, vuokrataFinnish
  • louer, loyerFrench
  • cíosIrish
  • thoir seachad air mhàl, màl, gabh air mhàlScottish Gaelic
  • भाड़ा, किरायाHindi
  • kiadó, kiven, lakbérHungarian
  • menyewaIndonesian
  • lacerazione, affitto, strappo, scissione, affittare, fitto, squarcioItalian
  • השכרהHebrew
  • 貸し借りする, 借りる, 家賃, 賃借, 借り賃, 貸すJapanese
  • 빌려주다Korean
  • کرێ, کرێ گرتنKurdish
  • Loyer, lounenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
  • noma, nomātLatvian
  • rētiMāori
  • закупува, наемнина, станарина, закупнина, кирија, изнајмуваMacedonian
  • verhuren, schisma, kloof, huur, scheur, huren, scheiding, barstDutch
  • leieNorwegian
  • aluguel, alugar, rendaPortuguese
  • rentă, locațiune, chirie, închiria, arendaRomanian
  • снять, нанимать, прокат, аренда, брать напрокат, сдавать, квартплата, взять напрокат, сдать, арендная плата, сдавать в аренду, квартирная плата, прореха, нанять, снимать, плата за прокатRussian
  • stanàrina, станарина, кирија, najamnìna, kirijaSerbo-Croatian
  • hyra ut, hyraSwedish
  • అద్దెTelugu
  • کرایہ, بھاڑاUrdu
  • 租金Chinese

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