rentnoun
uk/rent/us/rent/rent noun (PAYMENT)
A2 [ C or U ] a fixed amount of money that you pay regularly for the use of a room, house, car, television, etc. that someone else owns:
offered by the owner for someone else to use in exchange for money
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- The rent is due at the end of the month.
- Tenants who fall behind in their rent risk being evicted.
- We're really struggling to find enough money to pay the rent at the moment.
- My rent is $800 a month inclusive of bills.
- She withheld her rent until the landlord agreed to have the repairs done.
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Renting property
- fiefdom
- freehold
- key money
- landlady
- landlord
- lease
- leaseback
- leaseholder
- lessee
- lessor
- letting
- lodge
- lodger
- rent strike
- rental
- rented
- renter
- shorthold
- sublet
- tenancy
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rent noun (HOLE)
[ C ] formal a large hole torn in a piece of material:
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Holes, hollows and dips
- aperture
- cleft
- cranny
- dent
- depression
- dint
- dip
- donga
- eyehole
- intake
- orifice
- perforation
- piercing
- pinhole
- porosity
- porous
- puncture
- riddled
- tear 1
- wormhole
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rentverb
uk/rent/us/rent/rent verb (PAY TO USE)
A2 [ T ] to pay or receive a fixed amount of money for the use of a room, house, car, television, etc.:
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- Personnel will help you find a flat to rent.
- She rented a room above a shop.
- We're renting a cottage in Wales for the summer.
- We scoped out the local shops and facilities to see if it would be a good place to rent a flat.
- The landlord rents the flat out through a letting agency.
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Renting property
- fiefdom
- freehold
- key money
- landlady
- landlord
- lease
- leaseback
- leaseholder
- lessee
- lessor
- letting
- lodge
- lodger
- rent strike
- rental
- rented
- renter
- shorthold
- sublet
- tenancy
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rent verb (TORN)
past simple and past participle of rend
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Tearing and breaking into pieces
- apart
- asunder
- bobble
- break (sth) off
- breakage
- catch
- crack
- fall apart
- flake
- fragment
- fragmented
- frayed
- in ribbons idiom
- knacker
- pull sth apart
- rip
- shear
- split
- tear sth up
- torn
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