What's the difference between buy and rent?

Buy


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to sell.
  • (v. t.) To acquire or procure by something given or done in exchange, literally or figuratively; to get, at a cost or sacrifice; to buy pleasure with pain.
  • (v. i.) To negotiate or treat about a purchase.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • This article was amended on 1 September 2014 because an earlier version described Platinum Property Partners as a buy-to-let mortgage lender.
  • (2) Total costs of building the three missile destroyers in Australia will amount to more than $9bn, approximately three times the cost of buying the ships ready made from Spanish company Navantia, The Australian reported on Friday .
  • (3) Eight patients aged 7-15 were using inhaled sympathomimetic aerosols only at the time of buying a nebuliser as compared with most of the older patients, who were using regular oral steroids.
  • (4) He gets Lyme disease , he dates indie girls and strippers; he lives in disused warehouses and crappy flats with weirded-out flatmates who want to set him on fire and buy the petrol to do so.
  • (5) "For a few it will feel like having your wallet nicked with the mugger then handing you a few bob back to buy a pint.
  • (6) The headteacher of the school featured in the reality television series Educating Essex has described using his own money to buy a winter coat for a boy whose parents could not afford one, in a symptom of an escalating economic crisis that has seen the number of pupils in the area taking home food parcels triple in a year.
  • (7) But it [Help to Buy] is the right policy instrument to deal with a specific problem."
  • (8) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
  • (9) There are men who have been here for 15, 20 years or more who have never even sat in the cars because no one on the floor can afford to buy one.
  • (10) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
  • (11) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
  • (12) But Berlusconi and Sarkozy, seeking to curry favour with the strong far-right constituencies in both countries, sought to bury their differences by urging the rest of Europe to buy into their anti-immigration agenda.
  • (13) Sainsbury’s revealed on Tuesday that it had made an approach to buy Home Retail , which also owns DIY chain Homebase, and sources expect the company to return with another bid.
  • (14) For more than half a century, Saudi leaders manipulated the United States by feeding our oil addiction, lavishing money on politicians, helping to finance American wars, and buying billions of dollars in weaponry from US companies.
  • (15) Many leave banking after three to five years, not because they are 'worn out', but because now they have financial security to start their own business or go on to advocate for a cause they are passionate about or buy a small cottage in the West Country for the rest of their lives."
  • (16) Not even housebuilders are entirely happy, although recent government policies such as Help to Buy and the encouragement of easy credit have helped their share prices rise.
  • (17) Cobra collapsed into administration in 2009 after which Lord Bilimoria was criticised for using a “pre-pack” deal to buy back a stake in the firm.
  • (18) And the idea that it is somehow “unfair” to tax a small number of mostly rich people who were lucky enough to buy houses in central London that have soared in value to over £2m is perverse.
  • (19) Its Google Preferred initiative, launched in October 2014, packages up its most popular channels into more appealing media buys for big brands.
  • (20) It's also worth noting that if the Help to Buy scheme really does inflate house prices, by waiting five years before you buy you run the risk of not actually being able to save enough for a 10% deposit, because you'll need a bigger amount than you now need.

Rent


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Rend
  • (v. i.) To rant.
  • () imp. & p. p. of Rend.
  • (n.) An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
  • (n.) Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.
  • (v. t.) To tear. See Rend.
  • (n.) Income; revenue. See Catel.
  • (n.) Pay; reward; share; toll.
  • (n.) A certain periodical profit, whether in money, provisions, chattels, or labor, issuing out of lands and tenements in payment for the use; commonly, a certain pecuniary sum agreed upon between a tenant and his landlord, paid at fixed intervals by the lessee to the lessor, for the use of land or its appendages; as, rent for a farm, a house, a park, etc.
  • (n.) To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.
  • (n.) To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.
  • (v. i.) To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
  • (2) In Colchester, David Sherwood of Fenn Wright reported: "High tenant demand but increasingly tenants in rent arrears as the recession bites."
  • (3) Andrew and his wife Amy belong to Generation Rent, an army of millions, all locked out of home ownership in Britain.
  • (4) Education is becoming unaffordable because of tuition fees and rent.
  • (5) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (6) Lucy Morton, a senior partner at WA Ellis in Knightsbridge, says most foreign students want one-bed flats at up to £1,000 a week and they often pay the whole year's rent up front.
  • (7) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
  • (8) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
  • (9) A separate DWP-commissioned report, by the Institute of Fiscal Studies , on the impact of housing benefit caps for private sector tenants was welcomed by ministers as a sign that fears that the reform would lead to mass migration out of high-rent areas like London were unfounded.
  • (10) Karzai had come under criticism in the past from Afghans for renting the property to international officials.
  • (11) We’ve identified private accommodation that can be used to house refugees; we’ve set aside rented accommodation, university flats and unoccupied housing association homes for use by refugees.
  • (12) It said a government investment of £12bn could build 600,000 shared ownership homes, enough to give almost half of England's private renting families the opportunity to buy.
  • (13) In Palo Alto, there are the people who do really well here, and everyone else is struggling to make ends meet,” said Vatche Bezdikian, an anesthesiologist on his way to lunch on University Avenue, the main street, where Facebook first rented office space.
  • (14) To some extent, housing associations have taken their place, but affordable, social rented homes have been sold off more quickly than they have been replaced.
  • (15) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
  • (16) Their task was to reduce the size of the properties and change the tenure mix from private rented to shared ownership or open market housing.
  • (17) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
  • (18) The average rents in social housing meanwhile increased by 6.1% from £88.90 to £94.30 a week.
  • (19) The scheme, which will be completed in 2016-17, comprises 491 homes for social rent and 300 for private sale.
  • (20) She warned that housing benefit caps would make moving to the private rented sector increasingly difficult for those on low incomes, and complained that homes were now allowed to stand empty in London and elsewhere because they had been sold abroad as financial assets.

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