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This I had been doing for several months, when she wrote requesting that I would obtain the next payment as early as possible, as her rent was almost due, and she depended upon that sum to meet it.

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  1. noun Payment, usually of an amount fixed by contract, made by a tenant at specified intervals in return for the right to occupy or use the property of another.
  2. noun A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.
  3. noun The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.
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  • At the very time when Copenhagen was ringing with his praise Ibsen was borrowing money for his modest food and rent from the Danish Consul in Rome. —  Henrik Ibsen
  • I must explain that the first poor rate was in 1848, and half was made up by local subscription, while the rent was added by the presentment of the county, and not paid out of the rates. —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
  • If the rent was as low as she hoped, she wouldn't have to dip into the money she would use to buy a house once they were permanently settled. —  Janice Kay Johnson - The Family Next Door
  • Though the rent is a bargain by Rome standards, it gobbles up nearly half her monthly salary, which hovers below the four-figure mark. —  Alanat News
  • So now my rent is a month overdue and the next is due on top of it. —  RutlandHerald.com
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English rente, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *rendita, from feminine past participle of *rendere, to yield, return; see render.
  2. Short for parent.

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  1. from rent, v., ult. rend, v.
  2. from Middle English rent, rente =D. G. Danish rente =Swedish ränta, from Old French rente, French rente, income, revenue, rent, annuity, pension, funds, =Provencal renta, renda =Spanish renta =Portuguese renda =Italian rendita, income, revenue, rent, from Latin reddita (sc. pecunia), ‘money paid,’ feminine of redditus, past participle of reddere, give back, pay, yield: see render.
  3. from Middle English renten, from Old French renter, give rent or revenue to, =Spanish rentar, produce, yield; from the noun.
 

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