Pay vs Rent - What's the difference?
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To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services.
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, title= (ambitransitive) To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required.
* (Bible), (Psalms) xxxvii. 21
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, title= To be profitable for.
To give (something else than money).
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To be profitable or worth the effort.
To discharge an obligation or debt.
To suffer consequences.
Money given in return for work; salary or wages.
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Operable or accessible on deposit of coins.
Pertaining to or requiring payment.
(nautical) To cover (the bottom of a vessel, a seam, a spar, etc.) with tar or pitch, or a waterproof composition of tallow, resin, etc.; to smear.
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
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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.
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A division or schism.
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In transitive terms the difference between pay and rent
is that pay is to give (something else than money) while rent is to obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.In intransitive terms the difference between pay and rent
is that pay is to suffer consequences while rent is to be leased or let for rent.As an adjective pay
is operable or accessible on deposit of coins.pay
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Verb
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.}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about
- The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again.
T time, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- not paying me a welcome
- They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
Derived terms
* hell to pay * pay as you earn * pay-as-you-go * pay attention * pay back * pay down * payee * payer * pay for * pay for it * pay forward * pay in * payment * pay off * pay one's dues * pay one's respects * pay out * pay-per-view * pay respect * pay the bills * pay the freight * pay the penalty * pay the piper * pay through the nose * pay up * rob Peter to pay Paul * take or pay * you get what you pay forHypernyms
* (to give money) compensateHyponyms
* (to give money) bribe, disburse, fund, pay off, pay out, pay up, reimburseNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* combat pay * danger payAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
(etyl) peier, from (etyl) (lena) .Verb
(en verb)Statistics
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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 .