rent

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.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

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

1987, “Rent”, in Actually, performed by Pet Shop Boys:

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

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

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

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

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

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

1733–1737, Alexander Pope, [Imitations of Horace], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley [et al.]:

(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.

en-noun

rent (countable and uncountable, plural rents)

أُجْرَة

payment made for the use of equipment or a service

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.


rent

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

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

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

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

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

The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

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

en-verb

rent (third-person singular simple present rents, present participle renting, simple past and past participle rented)

rents (present singular third-person)
renting (participle present)
rented (participle past)
rented (past)

վարձել

obtain/have temporary possession of an object such as a movie


rent

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

1876, [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “The Cruel Crawling Foam”, in Joshua Haggard’s Daughter […], volume I, London: John Maxwell and Co. […], →OCLC, page 1:

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

1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter X, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

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.

2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in Rail, page 81:

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

2002, Michael B. Oren, Six Days of War: June 1967:

несъгласие

a division or schism between two things.


rent

Indeed, we could clearly make out the arch and stony banks of this second cave, and, from their rent and jagged appearance, discovered that, like the first long passage down which we had passed through the cliff before we reached the quivering spur, it had to all appearance been torn in the bowels of the rock by the terrific force of some explosive gas.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, “The Spirit of Life”, in She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC, page 286:

Cleopatra is rent by a struggle between her newly-acquired dignity as a queen, and a strong impulse to put out her tongue at him.

1898, George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra:

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

en-adj

rent (comparative more rent, superlative most rent)

more rent (comparative)
most rent (superlative)