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noun. Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another.

noun. A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.

noun. The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.

noun. The difference between the price paid for use of a resource whose supply is inelastic and the minimum price at which that resource would still be provided.

intransitive verb. To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.

intransitive verb. To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments.

intransitive verb. To be for rent.

idiom. (for rent) Available for use or service in return for payment.

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noun. An opening made by rending; a rip.

noun. A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

An obsolete variant of rend.

noun. Preterit and past participle of rend.

An obsolete variant of rant.

A Middle English contracted form of rendeth, 3d person singular present indicative of rend.

noun. Income; revenue; receipts from any regular source.

noun. In law: A compensation or return made periodically, or fixed with reference to a period of time, for the possession and use of property of any kind.

noun. Technically, a definite compensation or return reserved by a lease, to be made periodically, or fixed with reference to a period of tenure, and payable in money, produce, or other chattels or labor, for the possession and use of land or buildings.

noun. The right to such compensation, particularly in respect of lands.

noun. In political economics, that part of the produce of the soil which is left after deducting what is necessary to the support of the producers (including the wages of the laborers), the interest on the necessary capital, and a supply of seed for the next year; that part of the produce of a given piece of cultivated land which it yields over and above that yielded by the poorest land in cultivation under equal circumstances in respect to transportation, etc.

noun. An endowment; revenue.

noun. See def. 2 .

noun. Rent paid in advance.

noun. An opening made by rending or tearing; a tear; a fissure; a break or breach; a crevice or crack.

noun. A schism; a separation: as, a rent in the church.

noun. Synonyms Tear, rupture, rift.

To endow; secure an income to.

To grant the possession and enjoyment of for a consideration in the nature of rent; let on lease.

To take and hold for a consideration in the nature of rent: as, the tenant rents his farm for a year.

To hire; obtain the use or benefit of for a consideration, without lease or other formality, but for a more or less extended time: as, to rent a row-boat; to rent a piano.

To be leased or let for rent: as, an estate rents for five thousand dollars a year.

intransitive verb. To rant.

imp. & p. p. of rend.

transitive verb. To tear. See rend.

noun. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

noun. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation.

intransitive verb. To be leased, or let for rent.

transitive verb. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease.

transitive verb. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent.

noun. Income; revenue. See catel.

noun. Pay; reward; share; toll.

noun. 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

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noun. 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 rent, 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.

noun. 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.

noun. See Blackmail, 3.

noun. rent which is paid in advance; foregift.

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noun. 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.