Sale vs. Rent — What's the Difference?

The exchange of a commodity for money; the action of selling something

To tear. See Rend.

A period during which a shop or dealer sells goods at reduced prices

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.

The exchange of goods or services for an amount of money or its equivalent; the act of selling

A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.

A selling of property to the highest bidder; an auction.

The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.

An offer or arrangement in which goods are sold at a discount

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.

The business or activity of selling goods or services

An opening made by rending; a rip.

The number of items sold or the amount of money received for a number of items sold

A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.

Short for discount sale The sale of goods at reduced prices.

To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments

The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

To be for rent

(obsolete) A hall.

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

See 1st Sallow.

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

The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

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

Opportunity of selling; demand; market.

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

Public disposal to the highest bidder, or exposure of goods in market; auction.

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

The general activity of selling;

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

A particular instance of selling;

A tear or rip in some surface.

The state of being purchasable; offered or exhibited for selling;

A division or schism.

An occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices;

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

An agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer);

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

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

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

To rant.

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

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

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

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

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

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

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.

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.

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

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

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

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Let for money;

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

Engage for service under a term of contract;

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