Rent may refer to:

Economics

Renting Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another. A gross lease is when the tenant pays a flat rental amount and the landlord pays for a ...

, an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property *

Economic rent In economics, economic rent is any payment (in the context of a market transaction) to the owner of a factor of production in excess of the cost needed to bring that factor into production. In classical economics, economic rent is any payment m ...

, any payment in excess of the cost of production *

Rent-seeking Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth without creating new wealth by manipulating the social or political environment. Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic effic ...

, attempting to increase one's share of existing wealth without creating wealth *

Rentboy Male prostitution is the act or practice of men providing sexual services in return for payment. It is a form of sex work. Although clients can be of any gender, the vast majority are older males looking to fulfill their sexual needs. Male pro ...

or rent boy, a male prostitute

Entertainment

* ''Rent'' (musical), a stage musical by Jonathan Larson ** ''Rent'' (film), a 2005 movie version of the musical **'' Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway'', 2008 film of the final Broadway performance of the musical *

Rent (MUD) This is a glossary of terms common in MUD multiplayer virtual worlds. A–Z See also * Glossary of video game terms This list includes ter ...

, a game mechanic in some MUDs * ''Rent'' (song), a 1987 pop music hit from the Pet Shop Boys *

Gross rental A box office or ticket office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a wicket. By extension, the term is fre ...

s, also known as distributor rentals, the distributor's share of a film's theatrical revenue at the box office