rent

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  TARRED AND FEATHERED FOR PAYING RENT
• WordNet 3.6
  • v 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?"
  • v rent grant use or occupation of under a term of contract "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
  • v rent let for money "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
  • v rent hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
  • n rent the act of rending or ripping or splitting something "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
  • n rent an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart "there was a rip in his pants","she had snags in her stockings"
  • n rent a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
  • n rent the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
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A man, made poor by agricultural distress, selling something to a happy money lender in order to pay his rent

"Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces!"

• Interesting fact: In 1984, a Canadian farmer began renting advertising space on his cows.
• • Rent rĕnt imp. & p. p. of Rend.
  • Rent (Law) 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 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. "Catel had they enough and rent .""Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent In wine and bordel he dispent.""So bought an annual rent or two,
    And liv'd, just as you see I do."
  • Rent (Polit. Econ) Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.
  • Rent Pay; reward; share; toll. "Death, that taketh of high and low his rent ."
  • Rent (Polit. Econ) 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 rentorRicardian 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.
  • v. i Rent To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
  • Rent To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
  • v. i Rent rĕnt To rant.
  • Rent To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
  • v. t Rent rĕnt To tear. See Rend.
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• Interesting fact: In hotels in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, every room is required to have twin beds. And the beds must always be a minimum of two feet apart when a couple rents a room for only one night. And it's illegal to make love on the floor between the beds.
• • n rent Preterit and past participle of rend.
  • rent An obsolete variant of rend.
  • n rent An opening made by rending or tearing; a tear; a fissure; a break or breach; a crevice or crack.
  • n rent A schism; a separation: as, a rent in the church.
  • n rent Synonyms Tear, rupture, rift.
  • n rent Income; revenue; receipts from any regular source.
  • n rent In law: A compensation or return made periodically, or fixed with reference to a period of time, for the possession and use of property of any kind.
  • n rent Technically, a definite compensation or return reserved by a lease, to be made periodically, or fixed with reference to a period of tenure, and payable in money, produce, or other chattels or labor, for the possession and use of land or buildings. Compensation of any other nature is not termed rent, because not enforceable in the same manner. The time of paying rents is either by the particular appointment of the parties in the deed, or by appointment of law, but the law does not control the express appointment of the parties, when such appointment will answer their intention. In England Michaelmas and Lady-day are the usual days appointed for payment of rents; and in Scotland Martinmas and Whitsunday.
  • n rent The right to such compensation, particularly in respect of lands. Rents, at common law, are of three kinds: rent-service, rent-charge or fee-farm rent, and rent-seck. Rent-service, is when some corporal service is incident to it, as by fealty and a sum of money; rent-charge, or fee-farm rent, is when the owner of the rent has no future interest or reversion expectant in the land, but the rent is reserved in the deed by a clause of distress for rent in arrear (in other words, it is a charge on lands, etc., in the form of rent, in favor of one who is not the landlord); rent-seck is a like rent, but without any clause of distress. There are also rents of assize, certain established rents of freeholders and copyholders of manors, which cannot be varied: also called quit-rents. These, when payable in silver, are called white rents, in contradistinction to rents reserved in work or the baser metals, called black rents or black mail.
  • n rent In political economics, that part of the produce of the soil which is left after deducting what is necessary to the support of the producers (including the wages of the laborers), the interest on the necessary capital, and a supply of seed for the next year; that part of the produce of a given piece of cultivated land which it yields over and above that yielded by the poorest land in cultivation under equal circumstances in respect to transportation, etc. The rent theoretically goes to the owner of the soil, whether cultivator or landlord. Also called economic rent.
  • n rent An endowment; revenue.
  • n rent See def. 2 .
  • n rent Rent paid in advance.
  • rent To endow; secure an income to.
  • rent To grant the possession and enjoyment of for a consideration in the nature of rent; let on lease.
  • rent To take and hold for a consideration in the nature of rent: as, the tenant rents his farm for a year.
  • rent To hire; obtain the use or benefit of for a consideration, without lease or other formality, but for a more or less extended time: as, to rent a row-boat; to rent a piano. Synonyms and Lease, etc. See hire.
  • rent To be leased or let for rent: as, an estate rents for five thousand dollars a year.
  • rent An obsolete variant of rant.
  • rent A Middle English contracted form of rendeth, 3d person singular present indicative of rend.
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• Interesting fact: In Salem, Massachesetts sleeping in the nude in a rented room is forbidden, even for married couples.
• • n Rent rent an opening made by rending: fissure: break: tear: a schism, as a rent in a church.
  • n Rent rent annual payment in return for the use of property held of another, esp. houses and lands: revenue
  • v.t Rent to hold or occupy by paying rent: to let, or to hire, for a rent
  • v.i Rent to be let for rent: to endow
  • pa.t., pa.p Rent rent of rend.
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• Michael Caine

  

  “First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.”
• Chungliang Al Huang

  

  “Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.”
• Robert Orben

  

  “More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.”
• Source Unknown

  

  “Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.”
• Shirley Anita Chisholm

  

  “Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth.”
• Marian Wright Edelman

  

  “Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.”

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