rent

a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service

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

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

Income; revenue. See Catel.

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, 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.

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

To rant.

To tear. See Rend.

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

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