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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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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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On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to rent, such as: lease, payment, rental, tariff, and hire.

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

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