Meaning

noun a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service

noun an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart

noun the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

originFrom Middle English rent, rente, from Old French rente, from Early Medieval Latin rendita, from Late Latin rendere, from Latin reddere.

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