Definition of "rent" in English

noun

1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property.

   • I am asking £300 a week rent.

2. A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

3. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

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

4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.

5. (obsolete) Income; revenue.

6. (video games) An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.

verb

1. (transitive) To take a lease of premises in exchange for rent.

   • I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.

2. (transitive, informal) To grant a lease in return for rent.

   • We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.

3. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

4. (intransitive, informal) To be leased or let for rent.

   • The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

noun

1. A tear or rip in some surface.

2. A division or schism.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of rend

adjective

1. That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.