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# rent

«rent» in Mova's school dictionary: **Money paid regularly to use a house, flat, room or land…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (rent, rents); verb (rent, rents, rented, renting); also past of «rend» (old: torn)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Money paid regularly to use a house, flat, room or land that belongs to someone else. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#m1)

2) To pay to use something that belongs to someone else for a time (rent a flat, rent a bike). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#m2)

3) To let someone use your property in return for money (rent out). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#m3)

4) (old) A tear or split in cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#m4)

5) Rent can also be the past tense of rend, meaning tore something into pieces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

Common in money maths: rent per week or month, multiply to find a yearly total, or share rent between flatmates. In everyday life families rent homes, cars, skates, films. Phrases: «pay the rent», «for rent», «rent out», «rent-free», «rent a car».

### examples

- We pay the rent every month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x1)
- They rent a small flat in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x2)
- We rented bikes at the beach. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x3)
- The rent is 600 dollars a month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x4)
- If three friends share a rent of 900 dollars, each pays 300. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x5)
- Mr Lee rents out his garage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x6)
- The house is for rent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x7)
- We rented skates at the ice rink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x8)
- I threw myself on the ground and rent my clothes and tore my hair with sorrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: rented. Uncountable usually (the rent is high), but «rents» for many places. In the UK people also say «let» (a house to let); in the USA «for rent». In maths: rent per month × number of months = total; total rent ÷ number of people = each share.

### In the corpora

- [There is rent or a mortgage, energy for heating and hot water, council tax, broadband and insurance.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/1/)
- [Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/2/)
- [Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/9/)
- [Families move house for many reasons: a new job, more room, a cheaper rent, or because a tenancy ends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/0/)
- [Buying, selling or renting a home has many steps, and things can take months or fall through.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/10-moving-house-and-renting-a-home/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.