Meaning of rent | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property
2. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.
   countable, uncountable
3. A tear or rip in some surface.
4. A surname.
5. A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service
6. A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
   countable, uncountable
7. A division or schism.
8. A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business
9. A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
   countable, uncountable
10. An object for which rent is charged or paid
11. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
    countable, uncountable
12. Income; revenue
13. Income; revenue.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
14. An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“I am asking £300 a week rent.”

“This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.”

“We never ever argue, we never calculate / The currency we've spent / I love you, you pay my rent”

“A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.”

“So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.”

“[O]ne streak of copper-coloured light made a narrow rent between sea and sky.”

“The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents.”

“The oscillations were getting so severe that painters on the bridge learned to tie down their tins before a train passed. They found holes and rents in the iron but never reported them as they were never asked, and it wasn't their job. These were deferential times, and few wanted to talk out of turn.”

“[T]he White House was considering sending Vice President Humphrey to Cairo to patch up the many rents in U.S.—Egyptian relations.”

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