Definition of "rent" []

• Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another. (noun)
• A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another. (noun)
• The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs. (noun)
• The revenue yielded by a piece of land in excess of that yielded by the poorest or least favorably located land under equal market conditions. Also called economic rent. (noun)
• To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Under its regulations three rents are enumerated -- namely, the _rack rent_ to be extorted from one of a strange tribe; the _fair_ rent from one of the same tribe; and the _stipulated_ rent to be paid equally to either."
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• "It can be declined; _my rent; of my rent; to my rent; from my rent_."