Rent vs Infringement - 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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(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.
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A division or schism.
(rend)
a violation or breach, as of a law
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an encroachment on a right, a person, a territory, or a property
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Rent is a related term of infringement.
As nouns the difference between rent and infringement
is that 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 while infringement is a violation or breach, as of a law.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)infringement
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Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Georgia, ranked 16th in the world, dominated the breakdown before half-time and forced England into a host of infringements , but fly-half Merab Kvirikashvili missed three penalties.}}
citation, page= , passage=As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase a woman's body. }}