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Borrow

To obtain or receive (something) on loan with the promise or understanding of returning it or its equivalent.

Rent

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.

Borrow

To adopt or use as one's own
I borrowed your good idea.

Rent

A similar payment made for the use of a facility, equipment, or service provided by another.

Borrow

In subtraction, to take a unit from the next larger denomination in the minuend so as to make a number larger than the number to be subtracted.
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Rent

The return derived from cultivated or improved land after deduction of all production costs.

Borrow

(Linguistics) To adopt (a word) from one language for use in another.

Rent

The difference between the price paid for use of a resource whose supply is inelastic and the minimum price at which that resource would still be provided. Also called economic rent.

Borrow

To borrow something.

Rent

An opening made by rending; a rip.
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Borrow

(Linguistics) To adopt words from one language for use in another.

Rent

A breach of relations between persons or groups; a rift.

Borrow

To receive (something) from somebody temporarily, expecting to return it.

Rent

To obtain occupancy or use of (another's property) in return for regular payments.

Borrow

To receive money from a bank or other lender under the agreement that the lender will be paid back over time.

Rent

To grant temporary occupancy or use of (one's own property or a service) in return for regular payments
Rents out TV sets.

Borrow

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.
To borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

Rent

To be for rent
The cottage rents for $1,200 a month.

Borrow

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

Rent

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

Borrow

(arithmetic) In a subtraction, to deduct (one) from a digit of the minuend and add ten to the following digit, in order that the subtraction of a larger digit in the subtrahend from the digit in the minuend to which ten is added gives a positive result.

Rent

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
I am asking £100 a week rent.

Borrow

To lend.

Rent

A similar payment for the use of a product, equipment or a service.

Borrow

(ditransitive) To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

Rent

(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
A New York city taxicab license earns more than $10,000 a year in rent.

Borrow

To feign or counterfeit.

Rent

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Borrow

(obsolete except in ballads) To secure the release of (someone) from prison.

Rent

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

Borrow

(informal) To receive (something, usually of trifling value) from somebody, with little possibility of returning it.
Can I borrow a sheet of paper?

Rent

A tear or rip in some surface.

Borrow

(informal) To interrupt the current activity of (a person) and lead them away in order to speak with them, get their help, etc.
John, can I borrow you for a second? I need your help with the copier.

Rent

A division or schism.

Borrow

(golf) To adjust one's aim in order to compensate for the slope of the green.

Rent

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
I rented a house from my friend's parents for a year.

Borrow

Deviation of the path of a rolling ball from a straight line; slope; slant.
This putt has a big left-to right borrow on it.

Rent

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.
We rented our house to our son's friend for a year.

Borrow

A borrow pit.

Rent

(transitive) To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.

Borrow

(programming) In the Rust programming language, the situation where the ownership of a value is temporarily transferred to another region of code.

Rent

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.
The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

Borrow

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

Rent

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

Borrow

(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Rent

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

Borrow

To receive from another as a loan, with the implied or expressed intention of returning the identical article or its equivalent in kind; - the opposite of lend.

Rent

To rant.

Borrow

To take (one or more) from the next higher denomination in order to add it to the next lower; - a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

Rent

To tear. See Rend.

Borrow

To copy or imitate; to adopt; as, to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another.
Rites borrowed from the ancients.
It is not hard for any man, who hath a Bible in his hands, to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Rent

To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

Borrow

To feign or counterfeit.
The borrowed majesty of England.

Rent

To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Borrow

To receive; to take; to derive.
Any drop thou borrowedst from thy mother.

Rent

To be leased, or let for rent; as, an estate rents for five hundred dollars a year.

Borrow

Something deposited as security; a pledge; a surety; a hostage.
Ye may retain as borrows my two priests.

Rent

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.
See what a rent the envious Casca made.

Borrow

The act of borrowing.
Of your royal presence I'll adventureThe borrow of a week.

Rent

Figuratively, a schism; a rupture of harmony; a separation; as, a rent in the church.

Borrow

Get temporarily;
May I borrow your lawn mower?

Rent

Income; revenue. See Catel.
[Bacchus] a waster was and all his rentIn wine and bordel he dispent.
So bought an annual rent or two,And liv'd, just as you see I do.

Borrow

Take up and practice as one's own

Rent

Pay; reward; share; toll.
Death, that taketh of high and low his rent.

Rent

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.

Rent

That portion of the produce of the earth paid to the landlord for the use of the "original and indestructible powers of the soil;" the excess of the return from a given piece of cultivated land over that from land of equal area at the "margin of cultivation." Called also economic rent, or Ricardian rent. Economic rent is due partly to differences of productivity, but chiefly to advantages of location; it is equivalent to ordinary or commercial rent less interest on improvements, and nearly equivalent to ground rent.

Rent

A regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property

Rent

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;
There was a rip in his pants
She had snags in her stockings

Rent

The return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

Rent

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;
He gave the envelope a vigorous rip

Rent

Let for money;
We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad

Rent

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;
I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners

Rent

Engage for service under a term of contract;
We took an apartment on a quiet street
Let's rent a car
Shall we take a guide in Rome?

Rent

Hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services

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