Location vs Rent - What's the difference?
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A particular point or place in physical space.
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(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
* 2011 , Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography (page 188)
A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
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, title= 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
* (Alexander Pope)
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.
A tear or rip in some surface.
* 1913 ,
A division or schism.
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As nouns the difference between location and rent
is that location is a particular point or place in physical space while 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.As a verb rent is
to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend).location
English
(wikipedia location)Noun
(en noun)T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations
Synonyms
* (a place) placeDerived terms
* geolocationExternal links
* * *Anagrams
* ----rent
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) rente, from .Noun
(en noun)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.}}
- [Bacchus] a waster was and all his rent / In wine and bordel he dispent.
- So bought an annual rent or two, / And liv'd, just as you see I do.
Derived terms
* rental * renting * rent strikeVerb
(en verb)- The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.
Etymology 2
(etyl) . Variant form of renden.Noun
(en noun)- The brown paint on the door was so old that the naked wood showed between the rents .
