Rent vs Overhead - 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
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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.
(rend)
located above, especially over the head
(soccer) kicked over one's own head
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(uncountable, business, accounting) The expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
(countable, business, accounting) The items or classes of expense not directly assigned to goods or services provided.
(uncountable) Any cost or expenditure (monetary, time, effort or otherwise) incurred in a project or activity, which does not directly contribute to the progress or outcome of the project or activity.
(uncountable, business) Wasted money.
(tennis) A .
(nautical) The ceiling of any enclosed space below decks in a vessel
(transport) The system of overhead wires used to power electric transport, such as streetcars, trains, or buses.
(computing) data or steps of computation that is only used to facilitate the computations in the system and is not directly related to the actual program code or data being processed.
(juggling, by ellipsis) An overhead throw.
Above one's head; in the sky.
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(countable) An overhead projector.
(countable) A sheet of transparent material with an image used with an overhead projector; an overhead transparency.
English heteronyms
As nouns the difference between rent and overhead
is that rent is a payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property while overhead is the expense of a business not directly assigned to goods or services provided.As a verb rent
is to occupy premises in exchange for rent.As an adjective overhead is
located above, especially over the head.As an adverb overhead is
above one's head; in the sky.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)overhead
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(en adjective)- Place your luggage in the overhead bins.
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Noun
- Network overhead''' is the header data that is required to route and transport data over network, whereas fork '''overhead is the additional time and memory cost of creating and managing new processes within operating system.