rent

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
noun an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
noun the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

From Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

The Crofts who rent Kellynch? — Persuasion, Jane Austen
Fearful peals rent the atmosphere. — The Crack of Doom, Robert Cromie
They’ve rented Peter Sloane’s old house. — Anne of Avonlea, L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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