RENT

Rent

Rent is a rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson based on Giacomo Puccini's opera La bohème. It tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York City's Lower East Side in the thriving days of Bohemian Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.

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rent

Noun

  1. A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.
  2. A similar payment for the use of equipment or a service.
  3. A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.
  4. An object for which rent is charged or paid.
  5. income; revenue

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A tear or rip in some surface.
  2. A division or schism.

Verb

  1. To occupy premises in exchange for rent.
  2. To grant occupation in return for rent.
  3. To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money.
  4. To be leased or let for rent.
    The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

Verb (etymology 2)

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