transcription, транскрипция: [ rent ]
( rents, renting, rented)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you rent something, you regularly pay its owner a sum of money in order to be able to have it and use it yourself.
She rents a house with three other girls...
He left his hotel in a rented car.
VERB : V n , V-ed
2.
If you rent something to someone, you let them have it and use it in exchange for a sum of money which they pay you regularly.
She rented rooms to university students.
VERB : V n to n
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Rent out means the same as rent .
He rented out his house while he worked abroad...
He repaired the boat, and rented it out for $150.
PHRASAL VERB : V P n (not pron) , V n P
3.
Rent is the amount of money that you pay regularly to use a house, flat, or piece of land.
She worked to pay the rent while I went to college...
N-VAR
4.
Rent is the past tense and past participle of rend .
5.
see also ground rent , peppercorn rent