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1. Let for money
   "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
   - lease
    
2. Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
   - lease, let
    
3. Engage for service under a term of contract
   "Let's rent a car"
   - lease, hire, charter, engage, take
    
4. Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
   - hire, charter, lease

1. A payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
    
2. An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
   - rip, snag, split, tear
    
3. The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
   - economic rent
    
4. The act of rending or ripping or splitting something
   - rip, split

1. Tear or be torn violently
   - rip, rive [archaic], pull

Derived forms: rented, renting, rents

See also: rent out, rental, renter, renting

Type of: acquire, annuity in advance, bust, contract, gap, get, give, issue, opening, payoff, proceeds, return, rupture, snap, take, takings, tear, undertake, yield

Encyclopedia: Rend