Rent vs. Let
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
Letverb
(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent to}}.
Letverb
(transitive) To leave.
Letverb
(transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
Letverb
(transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
Letverb
(transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
Letverb
(transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
Letverb
To cause + bare infinitive.
Letverb
(archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
Letverb
(obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
Letverb
(obsolete) To tarry or delay.
Letnoun
The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
Letnoun
An obstacle or hindrance.
Letnoun
(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.
Letverb
To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.
Letverb
To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.
Letverb
To consider; to think; to esteem.
Letverb
To cause; to make; - used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.
Letverb
To permit; to allow; to suffer; - either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.
Letverb
To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; - often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.
Letverb
To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; - often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.
Letverb
To forbear.
Letverb
To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t.
Letnoun
A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; - common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.
Letnoun
A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.
Letnoun
the most brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India;
Letnoun
a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again
Letverb
make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen;
Letverb
actively cause something to happen;
Letverb
consent to, give permission;
Letverb
cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;
Letverb
leave unchanged;
Letverb
grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;
