Rent may refer to:

Economics

Renting Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the use of a good, service or property owned by another over a fixed period of time. To maintain such an agreement, a rental agreement (or lease) is sig ...

, 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 to the owner of a factor of production in excess of the costs needed to bring that factor into production. In classical economics, economic rent is any payment made (including imputed value) or bene ...

, any payment in excess of the cost of production *

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

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

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

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 multi-user dungeon (MUD) multiplayer virtual worlds. A–Z See also * Glossary of video game terms ...

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

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 frequ ...

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