Rent vs. Let — What's the Difference?

An income received from letting property.

To allow or permit.

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.

To cause to or make.

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

To release from restraint.

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

To give permission or opportunity to; allow

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.

To cause to; make

An opening made by rending; a rip.

Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a command, request, or proposal

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

Used as an auxiliary in the imperative to express a warning or threat

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

To permit to enter, proceed, or depart

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

To release from or as if from confinement

To be for rent

To rent or lease

A past tense and a past participle of rend.

To award, especially after bids have been submitted

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

To become rented or leased.

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

To be or become assigned, as to a contractor.

(economics) A profit from possession of a valuable right, as a restricted license to engage in a trade or business.

To hinder or obstruct.

An object for which rent is charged or paid.

Something that hinders; an obstacle

(obsolete) Income; revenue.

(Sports) An invalid stroke in tennis and other net games that requires a replay.

A tear or rip in some surface.

(transitive) To allow to, not to prevent to}}.

A division or schism.

(transitive) To allow to be or do without interference; to not disturb or meddle with; to leave (someone or something) alone.

(transitive) To occupy premises in exchange for rent.

(transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).

(transitive) To grant occupation in return for rent.

(transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.

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

(transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.

(intransitive) To be leased or let for rent.

Used to introduce a first or third person imperative verb construction.

Simple past tense and past participle of rend

To cause + bare infinitive.

That has been torn or rent; ripped; torn.

(archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).

To rant.

(obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.

To tear. See Rend.

(obsolete) To tarry or delay.

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

The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.

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

An obstacle or hindrance.

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

(tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

An opening made by rending; a break or breach made by force; a tear.

To retard; to hinder; to impede; to oppose.

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

To leave; to relinquish; to abandon.

Income; revenue. See Catel.

To consider; to think; to esteem.

Pay; reward; share; toll.

To cause; to make; - used with the infinitive in the active form but in the passive sense; as, let make, i. e., cause to be made; let bring, i. e., cause to be brought.

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.

To permit; to allow; to suffer; - either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent.

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.

To allow to be used or occupied for a compensation; to lease; to rent; to hire out; - often with out; as, to let a farm; to let a house; to let out horses.

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

To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; - often with out; as, to let the building of a bridge; to let out the lathing and the plastering.

An opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

To forbear.

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

A retarding; hindrance; obstacle; impediment; delay; - common in the phrase without let or hindrance, but elsewhere archaic.

The act of rending or ripping or splitting something;

A stroke in which a ball touches the top of the net in passing over.

Let for money;

The most brutal terrorist group active in Kashmir; fights against India with the goal of restoring Islamic rule of India;

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

A serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again

Engage for service under a term of contract;

Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen;

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

Actively cause something to happen;

Payment for using someone's property or item temporarily.

Consent to, give permission;

A tear or split in something.

Cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition;

A regular payment to a landlord.

Leave unchanged;

The act of hiring a service or item.

Grant use or occupation of under a term of contract;

Rent out a property (British English).

A hindrance (archaic usage).

In general American English, yes, "let" means to allow or permit.

Less commonly. In the US, "rent" is more prevalent for property.

Yes, "rent out" means to make property available for others to rent.

In the UK, it's an agency that arranges rental agreements between landlords and tenants.

Typically, yes. Renting usually implies a payment for temporary use.

Yes, though less common, "rent" can refer to a tear or split.

It's an archaic phrase meaning without obstacle or obstruction.

Yes, it typically means a property is available for rent.

It can mean hiring a service for a duration, like "renting a movie."

Yes, as in "The rent is due tomorrow."

No, it can also mean to allow or permit.

Yes, as in "let go" or "let loose."

Yes, it indicates something is available to be rented.

It's a contract between a landlord and tenant outlining rental terms.

Primarily, yes, but in property contexts, it can also be a noun as in "a property to let."