Rent vs. Fee — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rent and Fee
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Rent
Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another.
Fee
A fee is the price one pays as remuneration for rights or services. Fees usually allow for overhead, wages, costs, and markup.
Rent
A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.
Fee
A fixed sum charged, as by an institution or by law, for a privilege
A license fee.
Tuition fees.
Rent
The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.
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Fee
A charge for professional services
A surgeon's fee.
Rent
The difference between the price paid for use of a resource whose supply is inelastic and the minimum price at which that resource would still be provided. Also called economic rent.
Fee
A tip; a gratuity.
Rent
An opening made by rending; a rip.
Fee
(Law) See fee simple.
Rent
A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.
Fee
In feudal law, an estate in land granted by a lord to his vassal on condition of homage and service. Also called feud2, fief.
Rent
To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.
Fee
The land so held.
Rent
To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments
Rents out TV sets.
Fee
To give a tip to.
Rent
To be for rent
The cottage rents for $1,200 a month.
Fee
(Scots) To hire.
Rent
A past tense and a past participle of rend.
Fee
(feudal law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
Rent
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
I am asking £100 a week rent.
Fee
(legal) An inheritable estate in land held of a feudal lord on condition of the performing of certain services.
Rent
A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
Fee
(legal) An estate of inheritance in land, either absolute and without limitation to any particular class of heirs (fee simple) or limited to a particular class of heirs (fee tail).
Rent
(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.
Fee
(obsolete) Property; owndom; estate.
Rent
An object for which rent is charged or paid.
Fee
(obsolete) Money paid or bestowed; payment; emolument.
Rent
(obsolete) Income; revenue.
Fee
(obsolete) A prize or reward. Only used in the set phrase "A finder's fee" in Modern English.
Rent
A tear or rip in some surface.
Fee
An additional monetary payment charged for a service or good that is minor compared to the underlying cost.
Rent
A division or schism.
Fee
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
Rent
(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
Fee
Property; possession; tenure.
Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.
Rent
(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
Fee
Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be rendered; especially, payment for professional services, of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge; pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians; the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage fees, etc.
To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
Rent
(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
Fee
A right to the use of a superior's land, as a stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so held; a fief.
Rent
(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Fee
An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.
Rent
Simple past tense and past participle of rend
Fee
An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
Rent
That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
Fee
To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe.
The patient . . . fees the doctor.
There's not a one of them but in his houseI keep a servant feed.
Rent
To rant.
Fee
A fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
Rent
To tear. See Rend.
Fee
An interest in land capable of being inherited
Rent
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
Fee
Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the agreed-on compensation;
Remember to tip the waiter
Fee the steward
Rent
To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
Rent
To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
Rent
An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
See what a rent the envious Casca made.
Rent
Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
Rent
Income; revenue. See Catel.
[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rentIn wine and bordel he dispent.
So bought an annual rent or two,And liv'd, just as you see I do.
Rent
Pay; reward; share; toll.
Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.
Rent
A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
Rent
That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic rent, or Ricardian rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.
Rent
A regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property
Rent
An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
There was a rip in his pants
She had snags in her stockings
Rent
The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
Rent
The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
He gave the envelope a vigorous rip
Rent
Let for money;
We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad
Rent
Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;
I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners
Rent
Engage for service under a term of contract;
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Let's rent a car
Shall we take a guide in Rome?
Rent
Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
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