imp. & ·p.p. of rend.
2. rent ·noun pay; reward; share; toll.
3. rent ·vi to rant.
4. rent ·vt to tear. ·see rend.
5. rent ·noun income; revenue. ·see catel.
6. rent ·impf & ·p.p. of rend.
7. rent ·noun an opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
8. rent ·vi to be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
9. rent ·noun figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
10. rent ·noun to take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
11. rent ·noun to grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
12. rent ·add. ·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.
13. rent ·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; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, ·etc.
14. rent ·add. ·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, / 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.