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Rent

noun

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

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart. Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear. "She had snags in her stockings"

The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions. Synonym: economic rent.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something. Synonyms: rip, split.

verb

(past & past part. rented; pres. part. renting)

Let for money. Synonym: lease.

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract. Synonyms: lease, let.

Engage for service under a term of contract. Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take. "Let's rent a car" , "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services. Synonyms: charter, hire, lease.

Rend

verb

(past & past part. rent; pres. part. rending)

Tear or be torn violently. Synonyms: pull, rip, rive. "Pull the cooked chicken into strips"

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... and altogether the prosecutor wore a clean and respectable appearance. His face was broad, round and red, indicating a jovial disposition and a temperament not easily disturbed, except when "whate" was down too low to sell and he wanted to buy stock or pay the rent: a state of circumstances which I believe has sometimes happened of late years. A white short-clipped beard covered his chin, while his cheeks were closely shaven. He had twinkling oval eyes, which I should ...

— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris

... in hopes that we could rent out the large hall, together with the six other spacious rooms in the two upper stories, for schools, benevolent societies, &c., so as to pay the interest on our debt, if no more; but so far, we have not been able to do this. My own trials, with my family, have greatly retarded my efforts in this ...

— A Narrative of The Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man. - Written by Himself, At The Age of Fifty-Four • Noah Davis

... gave me a knowledge of the truth. She still keeps her carriage, and appears to be rolling in wealth, but she has sold her diamonds and wears paste. And that plain young person on the other side of her has money, and knows the value of it. She requires rent-roll for rent-roll, and instead of referring you to her father and mother, the little minx refers you to her lawyer and man of business. Ugly as she is, I would have sacrificed myself, but she treated me ...

— The Privateer's-Man - One hundred Years Ago • Frederick Marryat

... harvest excellent, and the wine of that vintage is celebrated to this day. Everyone was well off and reasonably happy, a marked contrast to the state of things a few years later, when dissension over the Dreyfus case rent the ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... the truth whereon my mind is bent, Here man knows God, nor ever stints to pray, Feeling his soul with hell's fierce anguish rent. ' ...

— The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini • Benvenuto Cellini

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