Rent Definition–noun | 1. | a payment made periodically by a tenant to a landlord in return for the use of land, a building, an apartment, an office, or other property. | | 2. | a payment or series of payments made by a lessee to an owner in return for the use of machinery, equipment, etc. | | 3. | Economics. the excess of the produce or return yielded by a given piece of cultivated land over the cost of production; the yield from a piece of land or real estate. | | 4. | profit or return derived from any differential advantage in production. | | 5. | Obsolete. revenue or income. | –verb (used with object) | 6. | to grant the possession and enjoyment of (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent from the tenant or lessee. (often fol. by out). | | 7. | to take and hold (property, machinery, etc.) in return for the payment of rent to the landlord or owner. | –verb (used without object) | 8. | to be leased or let for rent: This apartment rents cheaply. | | 9. | to lease or let property. | | 10. | to take possession of and use property by paying rent: She rents from a friend. | —Idiom | 11. | for rent, available to be rented, as a home or store: an apartment for rent. | |
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Car Definition–noun | 2. | a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car. | | 3. | the part of an elevator, balloon, modern airship, etc., that carries the passengers, freight, etc. | | 4. | British Dialect. any wheeled vehicle, as a farm
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