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

Synonyms:

get hold of, hold, train, allow, profligate, film, subscribe, enlist, economic rent, acquire, mesh, binge, drive, carry, learn, require, operate, let, lock, adopt, charter, renting, bust, teardrop, remove, borrow, conduct, admit, postulate, read, take away, involve, claim, engross, need, take aim, pack, rake, call for, make, select, hang-up, withdraw, pick out, aim, riptide, convey, hire, prosecute, countenance, schism, consider, on the market, study, assume, for hire, plight, permit, countercurrent, have, use up, affiance, take up, roue, snag, ingest, occupy, contain, consume, pay, take on, lend, rakehell, bout, direct, rub, look at, lead, guide, betroth, split up, demand, wage, necessitate, accept, torn, take in, bring, offered, to let, advertised, get, crosscurrent, ask, absorb, shoot, hitch, rip, fill, strike, tear, sublet, pursue, choose, submit, exact, blasted, stock split, tide rip, take, blood, deal, subscribe to

disjoint, disarticulated, scissored, fissured

disassociation, fissure, disunity, disengagement, alienation, division, dissection, disconnection, detachment, cleavage, segregation, part, divorce, slice, bisection, disarticulation, disintegration, disassembly, incision, separation, partition, break, amputation, dissociation

ruined, spoiled, damaged, despoiled, ransacked, depredated, ravaged, pillaged, laid waste, wasted, marred, wreaked havoc, wrecked, vandalized

disjoined, parted, divorced, alienated, disconnected, fragmented, cleft, disunited, disengaged, excised, ruptured, dissociated, separated, partitioned, broken, halved, dismantled, insulated, broke, sundered, split, segregated, uncoupled, divided, detached, cleaved, disassociated, severed

disassembled, bisected, pared, incised, cut, axed, ripped, estranged, sliced, unfixed, unglued, unhinged, disaffiliated, dissected, disintegrated, amputated, removed

employ, contract, lease, engage

Usage examples:

• They're owin' me a year's rent an' more." - "North, South and Over the Sea", M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell).
• You mean, you may be able to rent them? - "A Man and His Money", Frederic Stewart Isham.
• " And, of course," she murmured, " I know that Mr. Warrington isn't dependent for his income on the rent that comes in from such places. - "Guy Garrick", Arthur B. Reeve.