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  • verb To rent something again, especially to a new tenant

Etymologies

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re- +‎ rent

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Examples

  • Seeing the same movies for half a month over and over and then after that time frequent repeats mixed in with the latest 2 week reruns leaves me feeling it would be cheaper to go rerent the same movies if that was what I was in to.

    Hollywood and HDTV 2005

  • ( "I rerent Body double because I want to watch it again tonight even thought I know I won't have enough time to masturbate over the scene where the woman is getting drilled to death by a power drill since I have a date with Courtney at seven-thirty at Cafe 'Luxembourg.")

    youneverwin Diary Entry youneverwin 2006

  • You should also understand that we're not destitute--there's bits and pieces of money around, like my 401k, if things got truly desperate, and we could move if we had to though that's risky, given that we'd be responsible for the rent if they didn't rerent the apartment, and we could go to his mom or my parents if we were in danger of starving.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Emma Goldman 2005

  • Seeing the same movies for half a month over and over and then after that time frequent repeats mixed in with the latest 2 week reruns leaves me feeling it would be cheaper to go rerent the same movies if that was what I was in to.

    Hollywood and HDTV 2005

  • In essence, you are in business to find property that is underrented and rerent it for a profit.

    Nothing Down for the 2000s Robert G. Allen 2004

  • After you rerent to commercial tenants, you remarket the project to an investor for $275,000.

    Nothing Down for the 2000s Robert G. Allen 2004

  • The new buyers may have genuinely planned to move in and changed their minds, or they may have lied to you, planning all along to rerent at a higher rate.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • The new buyers may have genuinely planned to move in and changed their minds, or they may have lied to you, planning all along to rerent at a higher rate.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • In the latter case, though, higher rental costs mean plenty of money is still going to the publishers and both publishers and bookstores will be reaping repeated rewards for many semesters to come as they rent, rerent, and ultimately sell the books.

    Resources | ZDNet 2010

  • In the latter case, though, higher rental costs mean plenty of money is still going to the publishers and both publishers and bookstores will be reaping repeated rewards for many semesters to come as they rent, rerent, and ultimately sell the books.

    Resources | ZDNet 2010

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