Rent vs Den - What's the difference?
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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.
(rend)
A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; especially, a cave used by a wild animal for shelter or concealment.
A squalid or wretched place; a haunt.
A comfortable room not used for formal entertaining.
(UK, Scotland, obsolete) A narrow glen; a ravine; a dell.
(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
(a unit of weight)
Rent is a related term of den.
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.As a verb rent
is to occupy premises in exchange for rent or rent can be (rend).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 .
Verb
(head)den
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) den, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- a den of robbers
- Daniel was put into the lions’ den .
- a den of vice
- an opium den'''; a gambling '''den
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