A payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service.

Roget 198: interval, interspace^†; separation etc. 44; break, gap, opening; hole etc. 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure^†, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.    gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm; gulf; inlet, frith^†, strait, gully; pass; furrow etc. 259; abra^†; barranca^†, barranco^†; clove [U.S.], gulch [U.S.], notch [U.S.]; yawning gulf; hiatus maxime [Lat.], hiatus valde deflendus [Lat.]; parenthesis etc. (interjacence) 228^†; void etc. (absence) 187; incompleteness etc. 53.    [interval of time] period etc. 108; interim (time) 106.    ... show more

Roget 810: receipt, value received, money coming in; income, incomings, innings, revenue, return, proceeds; gross receipts, net profit; earnings etc. (gain) 775; accepta^†, avails.    rent, rent roll; rental, rentage^†; rack-rent.    premium, bonus; sweepstakes, tontine.    pension, annuity; jointure etc. (property) 780^†; alimony, palimony [Coll.], pittance; emolument etc. (remuneration) 973.    ... show more

Dutch: huren, huur, landhuur, pacht, pachtgeld, pachtsom
Polish: czynsz

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart.

synonyms: rip, snag, split, tear.

Roget 44: disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement; discontinuity etc. 70; abjunction^†; cataclasm^†; inconnection^†; abstraction, abstractedness; isolation; insularity, insulation; oasis; island; separateness etc. adj.; severalty; disjecta membra [Lat.]; dispersion etc. 73; apportionment etc. 786.    separation; parting etc. v.; circumcision; detachment, segregation; divorce, sejunction^†, seposition^†, diduction^†, diremption^†, discerption^†; elision; caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture; compartition^†; dismemberment, dislocation; luxation^†; severance, disseverance; scission; rescission, abscission; laceration, dilaceration^†; disruption, abruption^†; avulsion^†, divulsion^†; section, resection, cleavage; fission; partibility^†, separability.    fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision.    dissection anatomy; decomposition etc. 49; cutting instrument etc. (sharpness) 253; buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw.    separatist.    ... show more

Polish: rozdarcie, przedarcie

The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions.

synonym: economic rent.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something.

synonyms: rip, split.

Let for money:
— We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad.

synonym: lease.

Roget 795: buy, purchase, invest in, procure; rent etc. (hire) 788; repurchase, buy in.    keep in one's pay, bribe, suborn; pay etc. 807; spend etc. 809.    make a purchase, complete a purchase; buy over the counter.    shop, market, go shopping.    ... show more

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract.

synonyms: lease, let.

Dutch: verpachten

Engage for service under a term of contract:
— Let's rent a car.

synonyms: charter, engage, hire, lease, take.

Roget 788: borrow, desume^†.    hire, rent, farm; take a lease, take a demise; take by the hour, take by the mile, take by the year &c.; hire by the hour, hire by the mile, hire by the year &c.; adopt, apply, appropriate, imitate, make use of, take.    raise money, take up money; raise the wind; fly a kite, borrow from Peter to pay Paul; run into debt etc. (debt) 806.    replevy [Law].    ... show more

Dutch: huren

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services.

synonyms: charter, hire, lease.