Borrow vs. Rent

Borrow vs. Rent — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Borrow and Rent

Borrowverb

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

Rentnoun

A payment made by a tenant at intervals in order to occupy a property.

Borrowverb

To take money from a bank under the agreement that the bank will be paid over the course of time.

Rentnoun

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

Borrowverb

To adopt (an idea) as one's own.

to borrow the style, manner, or opinions of another

Rentnoun

(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.
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Borrowverb

(linguistics) To adopt a word from another language.

Rentnoun

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Borrowverb

(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.

Rentnoun

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

Borrowverb

To lend.

Rentnoun

A tear or rip in some surface.

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Borrowverb

To temporarily obtain (something) for (someone).

Rentnoun

A division or schism.

Borrowverb

To feign or counterfeit.

Rentverb

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

Borrownoun

(golf) 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.

Rentverb

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

Borrownoun

A borrow pit.

Rentverb

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

Borrownoun

(archaic) A ransom; a pledge or guarantee.

Rentverb

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

The house rents for five hundred dollars a month.

Borrownoun

(archaic) A surety; someone standing bail.

Rentverb

simple past tense and past participle of rend

Borrowverb

get temporarily;

May I borrow your lawn mower?

Rentnoun

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

Borrowverb

take up and practice as one's own

Rentnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

there was a rip in his pantsshe had snags in her stockings

Rentnoun

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

Rentnoun

the act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

he gave the envelope a vigorous rip

Rentverb

let for money;

We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad

Rentverb

grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners

Rentverb

engage for service under a term of contract;

We took an apartment on a quiet streetLet's rent a carShall we take a guide in Rome?

Rentverb

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