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rental

[ ren-tl ]

noun

  1. an amount received or paid as rent. rent.
  2. the act of renting. rent.
  3. an apartment, house, car, etc., offered or given for rent. rent.
  4. an income arising from rents rent received.
  5. a rent-roll.


adjective

  1. of or relating to rent. rent.
  2. available for rent. rent.
  3. engaged in the business of providing rentals:

    a rental agency.

rental

/ ˈrɛntəl /

noun

    1. the amount paid by a tenant as rent
    2. the amount paid by a user for the use of property

      telephone rental

    3. an income derived from rents received
  1. property available for renting
  2. a less common name for rent-roll


adjective

  1. of or relating to rent or renting

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Other Words From

  • pre·rental noun
  • re·rental noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of rental1

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English word from Anglo-Latin word rentāle. See rent 1, -al 2

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Example Sentences

For years now, San Diego has wrestled with how to handle and regulate vacation rentals.

The Council, after all, had tried to severely limit and regulate vacation rentals but the big platforms, led by Airbnb and HomeAway, easily forced it to throw out the ordinance by collecting enough signatures to force a referendum.

Last Friday, shortly after arriving at O’Hare International Airport, Rabin boarded a Blue Line train on his way to his rental place in the Wrigleyville neighborhood.

When Caroline Lee moved to San Francisco in September 2019, she was surprised by how difficult the “grind to find a rental property” was.

From Ozy

Early on in the pandemic, not long after the Bay Area first went into shelter-in-place, I booked a virtual cookie-baking class through vacation rental site Airbnb.

From Fortune

Production expenses: equipment rental, lights, lighting board, van rental, trailer rental, road cases, backline.

Peer-to-peer car rental RelayRides offers vehicles conveniently parked in airport lots.

At one point, she entered into a contract with a couple named Tamra and Tom Bennett to purchase eight rental properties.

On” is a beach cottage rental technical term meaning “closer to the ocean than Cincinnati.

In turn, the rental rates and home prices are rising fast–something of a new phenomenon.

Nor can a telephone company legally charge a higher rental for a telephone to a telegraph company than to any other patron.

Prospective lessees who had taken the trouble to inquire about the rental had learned that it was so high as to be prohibitive.

In order to reimburse himself in some measure for this loss Burbage retained £30 of the rental due to Alleyn.

In reality, Alleyn wanted to extort a larger rental than £14 for the property, which had greatly increased in value.

Celia borrowed the cottage from Mr. Perkins at a rental of several thousands a week.

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