rent

rent is a 4-letter English word with 20 senses as intransitive verb, noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Rend. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 20 senses

Definitions

1. past tense & past participle. of Rend
2. intransitive verb. To rant.
3. imp. & p. p. of Rend.
4. noun. An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
5. noun. Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
6. transitive verb. To tear. See Rend.
7. noun. Income; revenue. See Catel.
8. noun. Pay; reward; share; toll.
9. noun. 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.
10. noun. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
11. noun. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
12. intransitive verb. To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.
13. noun. the act of rending or ripping or splitting something

    "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

    Synonyms: rip, split

14. noun. an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

    "there was a rip in his pants"

    "she had snags in her stockings"

    Synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear

15. noun. a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
16. noun. the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
17. verb. engage for service under a term of contract

    "We took an apartment on a quiet street"

    "Let's rent a car"

    Synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take

18. verb. grant use or occupation of under a term of contract

    "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

    Synonyms: lease, let

19. verb. let for money

    "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

    Synonyms: lease

20. verb. hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

    Synonyms: charter, hire, lease

Synonyms

rip, split, snag, tear, charter, engage, hire, lease, take, let

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in rent:

entr, tern

Common word forms

rents, rental, rented, renter, rentes, renting, rentable, rentless

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