rent

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♦ rent /r'ent/ (rents renting rented)
1 [VERB] V n, V-ed
If you rent something, you regularly pay its owner a sum of money in order to be able to have it and use it yourself.
She rents a house with three other girls...
He left his hotel in a rented car.
2 [VERB] V n to n
If you rent something to someone, you let them have it and use it in exchange for a sum of money which they pay you regularly.
She rented rooms to university students.
[PHRASAL VERB] V P n (not pron), V n P
Rent out means the same as rent.
He rented out his house while he worked abroad...
He repaired the boat, and rented it out for $150.
3 [N-VAR]
Rent is the amount of money that you pay regularly to use a house, flat, or piece of land.
She worked to pay the rent while I went to college...
4
Rent is the past tense and past participle of rend.
5
see also ground rent, peppercorn rentground rent (ground rents)
[N-VAR]
Ground rent is rent that is paid by the owner of a flat or house to the owner of the land on which it is built. (mainly BRIT)pepper|corn rent (peppercorn rents)
[N-COUNT]
A peppercorn rent is an extremely low rent. (BRIT)rent boy (rent boys)
[N-COUNT]
A rent boy is a boy or young man who has sex with men for money. (BRIT INFORMAL)rent out
see rent 2

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