rent
/ɹɛnt/noun
Money paid regularly to a landlord for the use of a home, office, or other property.
Example sentences
- “Half of my monthly salary goes toward rent.”
- “Our landlord raised the rent by a hundred dollars a month.”
American signs say 'for rent'; British ones often say 'to let'. In older literary English 'rent' is also the past tense of 'rend', torn.