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Leased vs Rent - What's the difference?

leased | rent |

As verbs the difference between leased and rent

is that leased is (lease) while rent is to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend).

As an adjective leased

is transferred under the terms of a lease.

As a noun rent is

a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property or rent can be a tear or rip in some surface.

leased

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lease)

    • Adjective

    (head)
  • Transferred under the terms of a lease.
  • * 1880 , , page 327 [http://google.com/books?id=lTU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA327&dq=leased]:
    • The resemblance borne by such a land carriage to a ship put under charter-party is, perhaps, closer where the entire business of one railway company, with its tracks, rolling-stock, equipments, and goodwill become leased for a certain term to another company.

    Derived terms

    * leased access * leased facility * leased fee * leased line

    Anagrams

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    rent

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) rente, from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
  • * , chapter=17
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=This time was most dreadful for Lilian. Thrown on her own resources and almost penniless, she maintained herself and paid the rent of a wretched room near the hospital by working as a charwoman, sempstress, anything.}}
  • A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  • (economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
  • An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  • (obsolete) income; revenue
  • * Gower
    • [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
    Derived terms
    * rental * renting * rent strike

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  • To grant occupation in return for rent.
  • To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  • To be leased or let for rent.
    • The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) . Variant form of renden.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tear or rip in some surface.
  • * 1913 ,
    • The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
  • A division or schism.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (rend)

    • Anagrams

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