Definition of Rent

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Definition of Rent

Rent

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic, / Ricardian, rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

Loosely, a return or profit from a differential advantage for production, as in case of income or earnings due to rare natural gifts creating a natural monopoly.

of Rend

To rant.

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

To tear. See Rend.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

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.

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

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Rent Quotations

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad Ali

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Lauren Bacall

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.
Robert Orben

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.
Adam Smith

When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go; they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV.
Christopher Walken

And then before going back for my sophomore year, I decided to change my major to arts and sciences, and my dad cut a deal with me: He said if I'd quit school he'd pay my rent for the next three years, as if I were in school.
Sarah Silverman

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.
Marian Wright Edelman

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Stanislaw Lec

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.
Bruce Barton

Rent Translations

rent in Dutch is huur
rent in French is louez, loyer, louons, arrentez, accensons, louent
rent in German is Pacht, pachten, mieten, Miete, Miete, mieten
rent in Italian is noleggiare, affitto, appigionare
rent in Norwegian is leie
rent in Portuguese is aluguel
rent in Spanish is alquiler
rent in Swedish is hyra, arrendeavgift

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