Hire vs. Rent

Hirenoun

Payment for the temporary use of something.

Hirenoun

(obsolete) Reward, payment.

Hirenoun

The state of being hired, or having a job; employment.

Hirenoun

A person who has been hired, especially in a cohort.

Hireverb

(transitive) To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment.

Hireverb

(transitive) To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job.

Hireverb

(transitive) To exchange the services of for remuneration.

Hireverb

(transitive) To accomplish by paying for services.

Hireverb

(intransitive) To accept employment.

Hirepronoun

See Here, pron.

Hirenoun

The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay.

Hirenoun

A bailment by which the use of a thing, or the services and labor of a person, are contracted for at a certain price or reward.

Hireverb

To procure (any chattel or estate) from another person, for temporary use, for a compensation or equivalent; to purchase the use or enjoyment of for a limited time; as, to hire a farm for a year; to hire money.

Hireverb

To engage or purchase the service, labor, or interest of (any one) for a specific purpose, by payment of wages; as, to hire a servant, an agent, or an advocate.

Hireverb

To grant the temporary use of, for compensation; to engage to give the service of, for a price; to let; to lease; - now usually with out, and often reflexively; as, he has hired out his horse, or his time.

Hireverb

engage or hire for work;

Hireverb

hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

Hireverb

engage for service under a term of contract;

Hireverb

obtain the temporary use of (something) for an agreed payment

Hireverb

grant the temporary use of something for an agreed payment

Hireverb

employ (someone) for wages

Hireverb

employ for a short time to do a particular job

Hireverb

make oneself available for temporary employment

Hirenoun

the action of hiring someone or something

Hirenoun

a person who is hired; an employee

Rentnoun

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

Rentnoun

A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.

Rentnoun

(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

Rentnoun

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Rentnoun

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

Rentnoun

A tear or rip in some surface.

Rentnoun

A division or schism.

Rentverb

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Rentverb

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

Rentverb

(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

Rentverb

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Rentverb

simple past tense and past participle of rend

Rentverb

To rant.

Rentverb

To tear. See Rend.

Rentverb

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

Rentverb

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Rentverb

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Rent

imp. & p. p. of Rend.

Rentnoun

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

Rentnoun

Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Rentnoun

Income; revenue. See Catel.

Rentnoun

Pay; reward; share; toll.

Rentnoun

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.

Rentnoun

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 rent, or 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.

Rentnoun

a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

Rentnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

Rentnoun

the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

Rentnoun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

Rentverb

let for money;

Rentverb

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

Rentverb

engage for service under a term of contract;

Rentverb

hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services