(v): enter into a contractual arrangement
(v): grant use or occupation of under a term of contract
(v): transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
(v): engage for service under a term of contract
(v): come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
(v): hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services
(v): enter into a contractual arrangement
(v): tear or be torn violently
(v): separate or cause to separate abruptly
(n): a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
(n): an annuity paid in a series of more or less equal payments at the beginning of equally spaced periods
(n): an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
(n): an open or empty space in or between things
(n): the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
(n): the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property
(n): the act of rending or ripping or splitting something
(n): the act of tearing
"There was only the azure of her seas, glimpsed through the rents in her surging clouds, and occasionally a flash of land, brown or green." -- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun
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