Rent vs. Ret

Rentnoun

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

Retverb

(transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.

Rentnoun

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

Retadjective

retired

Rentnoun

(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.’;

Retverb

See Aret.

Rentnoun

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Retverb

To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.

Rentnoun

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

Retverb

of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue

Rentnoun

A tear or rip in some surface.

Rentnoun

A division or schism.

Rentverb

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Rentverb

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

Rentverb

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

Rentverb

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

‘The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.’;

Rentverb

simple past tense and past participle of rend

Rentverb

To rant.

Rentverb

To tear. See Rend.

Rentverb

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

Rentverb

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Rentverb

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Rent

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rentnoun

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

‘See what a rent the envious Casca made.’;

Rentnoun

Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Rentnoun

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.’;

Rentnoun

Pay; reward; share; toll.

‘Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.’;

Rentnoun

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.

Rentnoun

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.

Rentnoun

a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

Rentnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

‘there was a rip in his pants’; ‘she had snags in her stockings’;

Rentnoun

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

Rentnoun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

‘he gave the envelope a vigorous rip’;

Rentverb

let for money;

‘We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad’;

Rentverb

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

‘I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners’;

Rentverb

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?’;

Rentverb

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