The Clue
Letters for checks (5 letter answer)
The Answer
RENTS
Tags
Notes
The answer RENTS is seen frequently, appearing about once every 160 puzzles.
Related Clues
Charters
Fissures
Hires
Leases
Lets
Schisms
Tears
Certain payments
Checks for letters?
Doesn't own
Dollars for quarters
Flat rates?
Habitation obligations
Has a flat
Landlords' collections
Landlord's income
Landlord's take
Lessor's collection
Lessor's list
Lets out
Lets or sublets
Monopoly income
Monopoly payments
Monthly collections
Monthly items
Payments to landlords
Pays a landlord
Signs a lease
Takes an apartment
Takes a flat
Monopoly card info
Most Monopoly income
They're high in Manhattan
Income for Fred and Ethel Mertz
What stern landlords expect
Definition
RENT as a noun:
1. a regular payment by a tenant to a landlord for use of some property
2. (rip, rent, snag, split, tear) = an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart; "there was a rip in his pants"; "she had snags in her stockings"
3. (economic rent, rent) = the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions
4. (rent, rip, split) = the act of rending or ripping or splitting something; "he gave the envelope a vigorous rip"
RENT as a verb:
1. (rent, lease) = let for money; "We rented our apartment to friends while we were abroad"
2. (lease, let, rent) = grant use or occupation of under a term of contract; "I am leasing my country estate to some foreigners"
3. (lease, rent, hire, charter, engage, take) = engage for service under a term of contract; "We took an apartment on a quiet street"; "Let's rent a car"; "Shall we take a guide in Rome?"
4. (rent, hire, charter, lease) = hold under a lease or rental agreement; of goods and services