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 →

2) To pay to use something that belongs to someone else for a time (rent a flat, rent a bike). tree →

3) To let someone use your property in return for money (rent out). tree →

4) (old) A tear or split in cloth. tree →

5) Rent can also be the past tense of rend, meaning tore something into pieces. tree →

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 →
• They rent a small flat in the city. tree →
• We rented bikes at the beach. tree →
• The rent is 600 dollars a month. tree →
• If three friends share a rent of 900 dollars, each pays 300. tree →
• Mr Lee rents out his garage. tree →
• The house is for rent. tree →
• We rented skates at the ice rink. tree →
• I threw myself on the ground and rent my clothes and tore my hair with sorrow. tree →

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.
• Some families rent their home from a landlord; others are buying it with a huge loan from a bank called a mortgage.
• Rent is often a family's biggest bill, so when it goes up, other spending has to shrink.
• Families move house for many reasons: a new job, more room, a cheaper rent, or because a tenancy ends.
• Buying, selling or renting a home has many steps, and things can take months or fall through.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «rent» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.