rent - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

To rent something is to pay money to use it, live in it, or borrow it. If you're not sure which musical instrument you'll stick with and enjoy playing, it's best to rent a few to try out before buying.

Rent is both a verb and a noun for talking about things you don’t own. If you rent a house or an apartment, you pay money to live there, and the money you pay also is rent. You can rent just about anything, from skates at a roller park to furniture to fill the home you rent. One common thing about what you rent, though, is that you don't and won't own it. To rent is to pay for using something temporarily.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: rent

1	n v	a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service let for money
2	n	the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
3	n	the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: rent

1

n a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service

Types:: ground rent
payment for the right to occupy and improve a piece of land; peppercorn rent
very low or nominal rent; rack rent
an extortionate rent

Type of:: annuity in advance
an annuity paid in a series of more or less equal payments at the beginning of equally spaced periods

v let for money

“We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad”

Synonyms:: lease

Type of:: contract, undertake
enter into a contractual arrangement

v engage for service under a term of contract

“Let's rent a car”

Synonyms:: charter, engage, hire, lease, take

Type of:: acquire, get
come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

v hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Synonyms:: charter, hire, lease

Type of:: contract, undertake
enter into a contractual arrangement

v grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

Synonyms:: lease, let

Types:: sublease, sublet
lease or rent all or part of (a leased or rented property) to another person

Type of:: give
transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody

2

n the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

Synonyms:: economic rent

Type of:: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, takings, yield
the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

3

n the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

Synonyms:: rip, split

Type of:: tear
the act of tearing

n an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

Synonyms:: rip, snag, split, tear

Type of:: gap, opening
an open or empty space in or between things