Phrase Hound found 80 phrases and 70 compound words that contain rent. The most common are listed below. Open rent in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 80
- rent-a-carSynonym of rental car: A car that is or can be rented, usually for a short period, from a car rental company.
- rent boyA male prostitute, typically young and gay.
- rent controlA legal limit on the maximum allowable percentage increase which a landlord may charge for the cost of a rental unit per year. This limit can be determined at the local, county, or state level.
- ground rentRent paid under a ground lease, usually long-term or in perpetuity, for a surface right or estate in land where the landowner (surface owner) and the owner of improvements (ground lessor) are separate; the improvements are effectively …
- rent-freeWithout a rent payment.
- rent seekingAlternative form of rent-seeking.
- rent-a-copA private security guard, usually one regarded as inferior to and less skilled than an actual law enforcement officer.
- pay the rentOf a job or profession, to provide enough income for someone to afford a place to live.
- black rentBlackmail (rent paid in corn, meat, or the lowest coin).
- rent-a-quoteSomeone who is prepared to provide comment or opinion to the media on virtually any topic, either in exchange for payment or in order to gain exposure.
- rent-to-ownA transaction by which tangible property, such as furniture or electronics, is leased in exchange for a weekly or monthly payment, with the option to purchase at some point during the agreement.
- economic rentthe amount of recompense paid to a factor of production on top of its transfer earnings; this does not encompass costs incurred during the process of production or service
- rent-a-crowdA group of people who are paid to attend an event to increase attendance figures, rather than attending of their own volition.
- rent-controlledSubject to rent control.
- rent-seekerA person who engages in rent-seeking behavior.
- rent strikeA form of social or economic protest in which tenants who rent housing, commercial space, or other property act as a group to refuse to pay their rent until the landlord makes demanded improvements to the property or to the terms of the …
- paid the rentsimple past and past participle of pay the rent
- paying the rentpresent participle and gerund of pay the rent
- rent boysplural of rent boy: A male prostitute, typically young and gay.
- rent moneyMoney set aside to pay rent.
- rent partyA party with hired musicians, typically jazz or blues, held by tenants in order to raise money for rent.
- low-rentLow-quality, trashy.
- chief rentAn annual charge on certain freehold properties in England.
- pays the rentthird-person singular simple present indicative of pay the rent: Of a job or profession, to provide enough income for someone to afford a place to live.
- rent outto lease, let; to allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent
Compound words 70
- rentchargeAn annual sum or periodic payment charged on certain freehold properties or payable out of the income of those properties and expressly giving to the rentcharger, who has no reversionary interest in the property, the right of distress for …
- rentoidOne who rents property, especially one seen as lazy and pathetic.
- quitrentA rent reserved in grants of land, by the payment of which the tenant is quit (absolved) from other service.
- liferentThe right to receive for life the benefits of a property or other asset, without the right to dispose of it.
- rentabilityThe quality or degree of being rentable.
- renthouseA house that is rented out.
- unrentNot having been rent or torn; intact.
- antirentOpposing the collection of outstanding rents in upstate New York during the early 19th century after the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III.
- antirenterSomeone who opposes the payment of rent; especially one during the Anti-Rent War in the mid 1800s, who resisted the collection of rents claimed by the patroons from the settlers on certain manorial lands in the State of New York.
- forerentRent due to be paid before the first crop is reaped.