Rent in a sentence as a noun

But maybe my concept of "passive" is different from yours.

For rural kids, rent for a room is half what their parent's pay on mortgage or rent.

The "NoVa" kids in general didn't have to get jobs at all due to their parent's earning power.

That the companies that have currently been created are boring to you is merely a side effect.

"It makes me sick to my stomach as it so transparently preys on the weaknesses like addiction and compulsion.

The future's going to come out of a location that's free from the high-rent nonsense that creates a work culture of subordination.

The only thing propping up these insane prices is the scarcity induced by the current bubble in the foreign investment housing market.

A rural kid who makes it to a university will almost certainly have to work an almost full-time job just to cover their living expenses, books, tuition, rent...etc.

Rent in a sentence as a verb

Better bargains were the draw and Walmart boomed, outgrew their original store and struck an agreement with the mall for cheap property and rent if they could become the new anchor at the mall.

This piece is very perceptive in portraying Prop 13 property-tax caps and rent-control as sibling policies, each feeding destructive "I've got mine" politics.

Staring at an empty bank account, a pile of bills & wondering how you're paying rent next month does a remarkable job at distracting you from the emotional aspect of getting fired as well.

Obviously every financial decision is effected, even the tiniest purchases weigh into bigger questions like "will I have enough money in my bank account to pay rent on the first?

Over time different chemicals are available in the beaker and sometimes something magical happens, and sometime noxious fumes come out, but the place is an engine.

I listened to a talk by Amazon's CTO, Werner Vogels, where he was explaining that Amazon's entire strategy is to build an infrastructure for itself, then rent that infrastructure out to its competitors.

They both bribe incumbent owners/renters/voters with an economically valuable seniority privilege, at the expense of the future and flexibility.

Probably the best point made in this article is that universities aim for "surface" diversity: they take the easy route of pretending that picking enough students of enough different racial backgrounds is actually making their school diverse.

Rent definitions

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; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"

See also: snag split tear

noun

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

noun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"

See also: split

verb

let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"

See also: lease

verb

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"

See also: lease

verb

engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"

See also: lease hire charter engage take

verb

hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

See also: hire charter lease