Rent vs. Interest

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

Interestnoun

The price paid for obtaining, or price received for providing, money or goods in a credit transaction, calculated as a fraction of the amount or value of what was borrowed.

Interestnoun

(uncountable) A great attention and concern from someone or something; intellectual curiosity.

Interestnoun

(uncountable) Attention that is given to or received from someone or something.

Interestnoun

(countable) An involvement, claim, right, share, stake in or link with a financial, business, or other undertaking or endeavor.

Interestnoun

(countable) Something one is interested in.

Interestnoun

Injury, or compensation for injury; damages.

Interestnoun

(usually plural) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively.

Interestverb

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing.

Interestverb

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite.

Interestverb

(obsolete) To cause or permit to share.

Interestverb

To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work.

Interestverb

To be concerned with or engaged in; to affect; to concern; to excite; - often used impersonally.

Interestverb

To cause or permit to share.

Interestnoun

Excitement of feeling, whether pleasant or painful, accompanying special attention to some object; concern; a desire to learn more about a topic or engage often in an activity.

Interestnoun

Participation in advantage, profit, and responsibility; share; portion; part; as, an interest in a brewery; he has parted with his interest in the stocks.

Interestnoun

Advantage, personal or general; good, regarded as a selfish benefit; profit; benefit.

Interestnoun

A fee paid for the use of money; a fee paid for a loan; - usually reckoned as a percentage; as, interest at five per cent per annum on ten thousand dollars.

Interestnoun

Any excess of advantage over and above an exact equivalent for what is given or rendered.

Interestnoun

The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest.

Interestnoun

a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something;

Interestnoun

the power of attracting or holding one's interest (because it is unusual or exciting etc.);

Interestnoun

a reason for wanting something done;

Interestnoun

a fixed charge for borrowing money; usually a percentage of the amount borrowed;

Interestnoun

a diversion that occupies one's time and thoughts (usually pleasantly);

Interestnoun

(law) a right or legal share of something; a financial involvement with something;

Interestnoun

(usually plural) a social group whose members control some field of activity and who have common aims;

Interestverb

excite the curiosity of; engage the interest of

Interestverb

be on the mind of;

Interestverb

be of importance or consequence;

Interest

Interest, in finance and economics, is payment from a borrower or deposit-taking financial institution to a lender or depositor of an amount above repayment of the principal sum (that is, the amount borrowed), at a particular rate. It is distinct from a fee which the borrower may pay the lender or some third party.