Rent may refer to:

• Renting, a system of payment for the temporary use of something owned by someone else
• Economic rent, in economics, a payment to a factor of production in excess of that which is needed to keep it employed in its current use
• Rent (musical), a stage musical by Jonathan Larson, directed by Michael Greif
• Rent (film), a 2005 movie version of the musical, directed by Chris Columbus
• Rent (song), a 1980s pop music hit from the Pet Shop Boys
• The Rent Collector, a 1921 film starring Oliver Hardy
• an abbreviation of rent boy or rentboy, a slang term for a male prostitute