rent
/ˈɹɛnt/ noun A2- A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to lease a property. · I am asking £300 a week rent.
- A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.
- 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.
- An object for which rent is charged or paid.
- An amount of virtual currency paid by a player to preserve their character, inventory, etc. between gameplay sessions in a multi-user dungeon.
Plural rents
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Exactly; and he who changes them will follow friend Caderousse, lay hands on him, and demand what farmers pay him their rent in gold.
The painful catastrophe he had just witnessed appeared effectually to have rent away the veil which the intoxication of the evening before had raised between himself and his memory.
When her dishes were washed and her bread sponge set and her hens fed Marilla remembered that she had noticed a small rent in her best black lace shawl when she had taken it off on Monday afternoon on returning from the Ladies’ Aid.
Barry wants to rent the farm for next year.
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