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  • adjective Not rented.

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Examples

  • And after going unrented for three years, a restaurant space around the corner, at 552 Flatbush Ave., is currently housing a two-part pop-up gallery show.

    Art Amid the Downturn Bruce Bennett 2011

  • As long as the level of economic activity remains so clearly depressed — people unemployed, office space unrented, factories not working — then policy needs to remain oriented on spurring the renewed utilization of the people and facilities currently sitting idle.

    Matthew Yglesias » Stock Prices And Future Growth Prospects 2010

  • A seat of toilets in his storage area sit unrented.

    CNN Transcript Jun 14, 2009 2009

  • Now, we're almost at 100th, passing those two towers with their unrented frontages and, on the east side of the street, the classic façade of the old Metro movie house, closed to build one tower, and still empty.

    Tom Engelhardt: Economic Dirty Bomb Goes Off in New York 2009

  • Now, in the three towns in Colorado, newly built homes were empty; weeds quickly covered landscaped lots; half the apartments went unrented; construction workers from the Midwest packed up and headed home; traffic evaporated from the roads; and teenagers with nothing else to do took to vandalizing the partly built homes and office buildings.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • Today he still owns seven of them, and aside from one that's languishing unrented, the other six are still making money, he says.

    It’s Going to Get Worse 2008

  • Now, in the three towns in Colorado, newly built homes were empty; weeds quickly covered landscaped lots; half the apartments went unrented; construction workers from the Midwest packed up and headed home; traffic evaporated from the roads; and teenagers with nothing else to do took to vandalizing the partly built homes and office buildings.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • I wondered if some big development is in the works; so many unrented stores often points to that.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • He could imagine them, after months of hard labor, filing off to begin the next project, leaving behind a tidy maze of virgin lanes and walkways, a whole new city of pristine offices and unrented tenements.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

  • He could imagine them, after months of hard labor, filing off to begin the next project, leaving behind a tidy maze of virgin lanes and walkways, a whole new city of pristine offices and unrented tenements.

    Heaven Lake John Dalton 2004

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