(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.
Sublet
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Sublet
(v. t.) To underlet; to lease, as when a lessee leases to another person.
Example Sentences:
(1) If you’re renting your home, you are likely to find subletting is banned and could be cause for a disgruntled landlord to evict you.
(2) The biggest problem, he foresees, would be illegal subletting, but such is the strength of community involvement among tenants, who have been involved in the regeneration project at all stages, he suspects this would be minimal.
(3) An emerging critique today was that many difficult problems have been sublet to commissions and reviews.
(4) The investigations were carried out on rabbits irradiated with subletal (400R) and letal (800 and 1200R) doses of ionizing radiation.
(5) Second, because it shows that Miliband rightly wants to lead from the front and not sublet economic policy to the shadow chancellor as Tony Blair did; the key public spending shadow team will now be Miliband, Johnson and the new work and pensions shadow, Douglas Alexander, a well-balanced group.
(6) The apartments, which are rented by the hospital and sublet to the patients, are located in modern, well-maintained high-rise buildings within commuting distance from the hospital.
(7) The office also claims that Matthias D allowed Böhnhardt to sublet one apartment under an alias as the three committed terrorist acts including murders and bank robberies.
(8) The bank has the option to take all the floors or sublet it to tenants.
(9) I'm going to search for a sublet, and then I will ask all my friends.
(10) Tangled up in all this is illicit stuff that teeters into outright criminality: illegal gangmasters who recruit people in eastern Europe ; the unauthorised subletting whereby houses are crammed with people living two or three – or even more – to a room; an allegedly thriving trade in bootleg alcohol and cigarettes .
(11) For several reasons these ended in 1976, leaving me dependent on rent from lodgers to whom I sublet rooms in my council house, having some to spare because my wife and I had separated.
(12) Randeep Ramesh Treasury George Osborne's own department, one of the first to agree its budget, has committed to overall resource savings of 33% in real terms by 2014-15 by reducing staffing levels, streamlining internal processes and halving the net cost of its building, possibly by subletting unoccupied parts.
(13) In addition to a staffing review, all contracts would need to be challenged to remove any discretionary costs and offices considered for sale or sublet.” The legal changes being introduced by the Conservatives have been condemned as the most unfair alterations to political parties’ funding since the second world war.
(14) But now the waiting lists are so long, those holders who find themselves too busy to dig sometimes illegally sublet rather than let go of their plot altogether – the vegetable equivalent, I suppose, of the dodgy things people get up to when it comes to school catchment areas.
(15) People renting a property can also sublet and get the same benefits.
(16) The retailer has installed coffee shops, restaurants and gyms to make the stores more attractive and looked to sublet space to other retailers.
(17) Tax incentives should encourage renting, co-ops and sublets such as Airbnb .
(18) Subletal intoxication with an irreversible inhibitor of AChE is followed by a faster recovery of the smaller forms.
(19) During this time, too, it was relatively simple to claim housing benefit while subletting my student flat over the summer for nothing to the mendicant men who drank under the bridge in exchange for some of their Giro Party cargo (a dozen cans of Tennent's Super each Tuesday).
(20) The guidelines also make it clear that you can’t sublet a Help to Buy property.