Rent vs. Ret — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Rent and Ret
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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.
Ret
To moisten or soak (flax, for example) in order to soften and separate the fibers by partial rotting.
Rent
A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.
Ret
To become so moistened or soaked.
Rent
The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.
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Ret
(transitive) To prepare (flax, hemp etc.) for further processing by soaking, which facilitates separation of fibers from the woody parts of the stem.
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.
Ret
Retired
Rent
An opening made by rending; a rip.
Ret
See Aret.
Rent
A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.
Ret
To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment.
Rent
To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.
Ret
Of flax, hemp, or jute, so as to promote loosening of the fibers form the woody tissue
Rent
To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments
Rents out TV sets.
Rent
To be for rent
The cottage rents for $1,200 a month.
Rent
A past tense and a past participle of rend.
Rent
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
I am asking £100 a week rent.
Rent
A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
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.
Rent
An object for which rent is charged or paid.
Rent
(obsolete) Income; revenue.
Rent
A tear or rip in some surface.
Rent
A division or schism.
Rent
(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.
Rent
(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.
Rent
(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
Rent
(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Rent
Simple past tense and past participle of rend
Rent
That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.
Rent
To rant.
Rent
To tear. See Rend.
Rent
To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
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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