(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.
Rentable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being rented, or suitable for renting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptation of syphilis screening on Groupamatic is a factor of rentability of this equipment, allowing to realize 360 tests in one hour.
(2) Procedures considering patients' demands, also demand a high amount of variation and robustness by which (1) the validity is increased and (2) the rentability is decreased.
(3) A prospective study was carried out between June 1988 and September 1989 by angiologists in 5 regions of France to evaluate the diagnostic rentability of an epidemiologic survey and to determine possible distinctive characters of DVTA.
(4) Problematic of hypercaries-producing child is analyzed and it is concluded that it is necessary to control and record him, and that investment in a strict treatment, such as that successfully assayed by us, should be rentable, since it should reduce amount of extractions of teeth and to contribute in that way to a real promotion of oral health with the infantile population.
(5) The rentability reaches 89 p. cent for malignant lesions.
(6) After the controversy sustained over many years in which the rentability of early diagnosis and the secondary potential effects of periodic mammographies was questioned, nowadays there is no question about their value.
(7) Shortness and simplicity of the test decisively adds to the rentability and the validity of the examination.
(8) The complications with the fine needle are very unusual comparatively to the technics allowing a histologic study, although rentability is equal for these two methods.
(9) Following these instructions you'll get: An increasing in productivity and rentability due to a bigger comfort in your working areas.
(10) Fifty-eight patients who presented clinical criteria of pneumonia (fever, leukocytosis, purulent tracheo-bronchial secretions, and lung infiltrate of recent appearance in X-ray) were prospectively studied in order to determine the cost effectiveness [correction of rentability] of quantitative culture of bronchial secretions by means of a telescopic catheter (TC) in the diagnosis of bacterial pneumonia in patients under mechanical ventilation.
(11) The rentability of tests of psychopharmacological drugs can essentially be influenced by psychopathometric procedures.
(12) W hat I like about this site,” says Grayson Perry as he surveys a scrappy bit of land in Wrabness, north-east Essex, “is they wouldn’t film Towie here.” Flagrant structured-reality slander aside, the largely excellent Grayson Perry’s Dream House follows the process of building a fully habitable and rentable house to Grayson’s artistic specifications, as commissioned by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project (but don’t let that put you off).