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say it: rent
rent is a noun and verb meaning "a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service". It is pronounced /ˈɹɛnt/ — rent. It carries 8 recorded senses.
a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
“there was a rip in his pants”
“she had snags in her stockings”
the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for rent come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.