Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An amount paid or collected as rent.
  • noun A piece of property available for renting.
  • noun The act of renting.
  • noun An agency that rents something.
  • noun A list of tenants and schedule of rents.
  • adjective Of, relating to, or available for rent.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A schedule or an account of rents, or a roll wherein the rents of a manor or an estate are set down; a rent-roll.
  • noun The gross amount of rents drawn from an estate or other property: as, the rental of the estate is five thousand a year.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.
  • noun A sum total of rents.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun slang Short term for something that is rented.
  • noun The payment made to rent something.
  • adjective Relating to rent.
  • adjective Relating to renting.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)
  • adjective of or relating to rent
  • adjective available to rent or lease
  • noun property that is leased or rented out or let

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Examples

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  • Over the weekend, I found a short-term rental which is available from May 15th to August 15th.

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  • If a house for sale or a rental is priced in US Dollars instead of Mexican Pesos, it is overpriced, pass on it.

    Cuernavaca 2009

  • If a house for sale or a rental is priced in US Dollars instead of Mexican Pesos, it is overpriced, pass on it.

    Cuernavaca 2009

  • The iOn forms part of Peugeot's innovative "Mu" mobility short-term rental service membership required.

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  • HUD is providing $10 million in short-term rental assistance, the VA is providing $5 million for medical services and case management, and the Labor Department is providing job training and counseling.

    Veterans more likely to be homeless, study says 2011

  • Through its web portal, the company allows people the world over to exchange housing, essentially turning private residences into mini-hotels, renting out their homes and finding residences to for short-term rental.

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  • If a house for sale or a rental is priced in US Dollars instead of Mexican Pesos, it is overpriced, pass on it.

    Cuernavaca 2009

  • If it doesn't draw, the City still makes $2.5 million in rental income over the next 5 years, and can use that money to then do something else with the space.

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  • HUD is providing $10 million in short-term rental assistance, the VA is providing $5 million for medical services and case management, and the Labor Department is providing job training and counseling.

    Veterans more likely to be homeless, study says 2011

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