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rent

noun as in fee paid for use, service, or privilege

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verb as in pay or charge fee for use, service, or privilege

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Example Sentences

It wasn’t just a question of how the restaurant was going to pay rent month-to-month, but also how they could afford to pay what would amount to more than $30,000 in missed rent at the end of the year.

From Eater

Sherry told the Blade she and other tenants paid their rent by the week.

In addition to offering vans for rent, it’s open to members who already have their own vans.

If a housing authority brings in fewer dollars from rent payments, it doesn’t get more money.

Struggling restaurants say it’s a lifeline, letting them rehire bartenders, pay rent and reestablish relationships with customers.

From Fortune

The first 30 years of his life, he helped his father build and then rent out Rockefeller Center at a difficult time.

And actual vote-buying is a pretty low-rent form of corruption anyway.

The winter air is rent with cries from thousands of puffed up lips, begging to be let in.

Squeezing what rent he could from the tenants, Washington moved on.

The journey began well, as Washington managed to collect some rent from war-ravaged tenants in Cumberland.

Rent, the share of the land-owner, offered to the classicist a rather peculiar case.

A fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins.

You may have similar qualms over rent and the rightness and wrongness of it.

He wishes to cultivate it still, and offers to renew the lease for any number of years, and pay the rent punctually.

The high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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