rent
- Noun. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
- Noun. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
- Noun. (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
- Verb. (transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
- Verb. (transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
- Verb. (transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money/rent.
- Noun. A tear or rip in some surface.
- Noun. A division or schism between two things.
- Verb. (past of, rend) .
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