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Definition of RENT

by subville @ Friday, 16. May, 2008 - 05:26:58 pm

Dictionary.com (Unabridged)

–noun
1. a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property.
2. a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner in return for the use of machinery, equipment, etc.
3. Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate.
4. profit or return derived from any differential advantage in production.
5. Obsolete. revenue or income.
–verb (used with object)
6. to grant the possession and enjoyment of (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent from the tenant or lessee. (often fol. by out).
7. to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner.
–verb (used without object)
8. to be leased or let for rent: This apartment rents cheaply.
9. to lease or let property.
10. to take possession of and use property by paying rent: She rents from a friend.
—Idiom
11. for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store: an apartment for rent.

My wee dictionary with the broken spine (oh how apt)

- noun
payment for the use of land or buildings

to hold as a tenant

to let

That's all ;D

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