rent

Definitions (2)

1. General: Compensation paid by a tenant (or lessee) to the property owner (or lessor) for use or occupancy of a property.

2. Economics: Surplus generated by the supply of any resource (capital, human, natural) over the amount necessary to produce, or bring forth, the quantity of resources supplied. See also economic rent.

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