RENT


Meaning of RENT in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a rent rise British English

Tenants face huge rent rises.

a rented flat

He returned to his rented flat in Cheltenham.

a rented house (= one owned by someone who rents it to people )

She shares a rented house with three other students.

buy/rent an apartment

Tom rented an apartment at the top of the building.

charge rent/a fee/interest etc

The gallery charges an entrance fee.

collect tax/rent/a debt

The landlady came around once a month to collect the rent.

exorbitant rent/prices etc

exorbitant rates of interest

gas man/rent man etc

I waited all day for the gas man.

ground rent

non-payment of rent

She was finally evicted in April for non-payment of rent .

peppercorn rent

rent a bike ( also hire a bike British English )

You can rent bikes and explore the island's cycle paths.

rent a flat

Renting a flat can be very expensive in this part of town.

rent a house

While he was working in London, Ken rented a house in Fulham.

rent boy

rent control

rent rebate

rent strike

rented accommodation

rented accommodation

rent/mortgage/tax arrears

He was ordered to pay rent arrears of £550.

rent/price/wage etc controls

Rent controls ensured that no one paid too much for housing.

the rented sector (= homes that people can rent )

We have lost 2 million homes from the rented sector.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

out

For example, you may be working abroad and renting out your home.

Just get some samples together, print up pretentious business cards, inflate values, rent out tent space and voila!

Party chairman Sir Norman Fowler is also said to be considering renting out part of the building in Westminster.

In addition to the City-organized leagues, there are also independent leagues that rent out the San Francisco fields for their use.

He didn't say anything to me about renting out his house.

Recently it had been rented out to a whole parcel of Negroes, who had left the state.

She ran a caravan site and rented out grazing and stables at the lowest rate in the neighbourhood - naturally!

Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

back rent/taxes/pay etc

A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.

Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.

He owes $ 10, 000 in back taxes.

Homar sued for reinstatement of his job, back pay and money damages.

I needed a release from the tax office showing that I owed no back taxes.

Look, she said, he's left, bolted, owing three months' back rent.

Next: What to do when you can not afford to pay back taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service has been battling him for years for back taxes and penalties related to one venture.

be torn/split/rent etc asunder

If the momentum picks up, conventional politics could be torn asunder .

In 1964, the Republican Party was torn asunder by the nomination of conservative Barry Goldwater.

The veils are parting, the mists are rent asunder .

This unity was to be rent asunder by changes in technology and by the impact of the Modern Movement in architecture.

rented accommodation/housing/apartment etc

Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.

Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.

Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.

The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.

The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.

They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.

This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.

Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Beck and his wife are renting while they look for a house to buy.

Did you know you can rent a fax machine from the telephone company?

Do you own your home or are you renting?

He finally decided to rent a condo on the lake.

I can't afford to rent an office in this part of town.

Many young couples rent an apartment until they've saved enough money to buy a house.

Should we rent a video tonight?

Vicky put the house up for rent a month ago, but changed her mind the next day.

We rented a couple of movies this weekend.

When she got to Dallas she rented a Ford convertible from the Avis desk.

You rented a tuxedo for two hundred dollars? Are you crazy?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He rented a further acre of land and erected five kilns, a drying floor and engine house.

Imagine tossing the keys to a 300-horsepower rented Corvette to a seventeen-year-old boy who likes race cars.

Instead, many fell upon him and rent him.

Later, they rented an apartment to other refugees in a building they own.

Of the 4,190,000 households entitled to rent rebates only 2,930,000 received them.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

annual

Yields, expressed as a percentage, indicate the annual rent as a proportion of the property value.

Barneys signed leases under which it paid $ 25 million in annual rent for two years to Isetan.

At the date of this assignment, the annual rent payable under the lease was £9,800.

The land is rented to the village by Sir Ian MacDonald for the annual rent of one white rose.

Under the terms of their lease, they have to pay maintenance charges and annual ground rent to a landlord.

I do believe that in years gone by they paid the annual rent for Low Birk Hatt by spinning and knitting.

But the Council's annual rent of £8,000 was more than they could afford.

The new rateable values will be based on current annual rents .

back

Look, she said, he's left, bolted, owing three months' back rent .

A former landlord said she was still owed several thousand dollars in back rent .

Dave Escott bought at the height of the boom, and any back rent will only add to his negative equity.

free

It has built empty factories which it lets out free of rent for up to five years.

That new job will mean free rent but fewer food stamps, he said.

high

We will not be paying these higher rents .

Others were living in places that made them ill or were paying high rents .

Now those landowners have become greedy and demand high rents - and we help to exploit the peasants by levying crippling taxes.

The four metropolitan areas with the highest rents were located in California: San Jose, $ 1, 330.

This means that they will have different tenancy rights and possibly higher rents .

How did mall stores battle back, saddled with higher rents , less floor space and lower volume than their competitors?

The protest focused on high rents and called for the resignation of township councillors.

Just how high rents will rise depends on location.

low

The new offices have been obtained on advantageous terms, the refurbishment costs being offset against a significantly lower rent .

When this was combined with the lower rent it could also argue for, the finally agreed deal had quite an effect.

In exchange, homesteaders will pay a lower rent or be able to buy at a reduced price.

He has chosen a $ 790 per-month apartment on the eighth floor, the lowest rent in the San Fernando.

In fact all his empties could be let at low rents for perhaps three years.

Many have balanced their lives on low rents .

Jane had also done up and let the cottage at a low rent .

Under this system tenants paid low annual rents and a large entry fine at the beginning of their tenancy.

■ NOUN

arrears

Argue, take advice - whatever - but rent arrears are a certain route to eviction.

Now I've been informed that I have £200 rent arrears .

Council tenants' rent arrears have risen to over £450 million, the Audit Commission reveals.

In 1987 rent arrears and mortgage default accounted for 13 percent of homelessness.

Latest figures show rent arrears stand at £10.8m for former tenants and £7.9m for current tenants.

Except in the case of rent arrears , almost anyone can act as a private bailiff.

Council house rent arrears amounted to over £1m, though they are at long last being reduced.

The report anticipates increasing rent arrears .

control

Although a temporary measure, it soon became apparent that rent control could not be abolished with the war's end.

Because of the rent control that had predominated since 1914, houses in Warsaw had become run down.

Clearly, only one of the aggrieved parties of rent control is the property owner who subsidizes renters.

Private rented accommodation has been increasingly freed of rent control , taking it beyond the reach of the young homeless.

In between New York and California, 33 states have preempted rent control .

The strict rent control , introduced in the war to protect private tenants, was partly lifted during the inter war period.

I am a property owner who has challenged rent control for many years.

ground

Amounts of ground rent , other rents and premiums must also be disclosed with the frequency of rent reviews.

The committee offered £300 plus £1 a year ground rent .

The terms were a payment of £325 and a ground rent of £1 a year.

Cash Flow: Club expenses include wages, transfer fees and ground rent .

There is also something called ground rent , which is attached to leasehold flats.

house

Darlington council house rents will rise by £2.85 from April an average increase of 14 percent.

Council house rent levels have increasingly been influenced - if not determined - by central government order to reduce subsidies.

You with five kids and council house rent to pay?

Council house rent arrears amounted to over £1m, though they are at long last being reduced.

increase

The meeting came on the same day the latest casualty of the rent increases left his pub.

So naturally you were upset at the thought of a rent increase .

These statistics indicate that even slight rent increases would cause considerable hardship among housing association tenants.

I asked Grand Met how it justified the rent increases being imposed.

level

Covers both the private and social rented sectors and considers rent levels , rent patterns, house prices and rates of return.

The council will have no control at all over rent levels .

Council house rent levels have increasingly been influenced - if not determined - by central government order to reduce subsidies.

Thus, tenants were singled out for protection regarding rent levels and security, but mere licensees were excluded from this.

Employees may find it difficult to gain information on rent levels which could apply to their own homes.

market

There is no doubt that the old rating system was based on the nebulous concept of a fair market rent .

There is limited access to a Rent Assessment Committee, but it will set what it judges to be a market rent .

There will not be much margin for resource or market rents at the well-head or in the electricity system.

The landlord can let at an agreed market rent .

Many landlords are desperate to let their buildings and to make market rents look high.

This would entitle the tenant to have a new tenancy at the then prevailing market rent .

payment

It is believed he had fallen behind on rent payments for the four-bedroom house and had difficulties funding the children's education.

The landlord Les Helm could not afford the rent payments under the new lease as his rent had gone up sevenfold.

This clause should be amended to provide that the first rent payment will be due on the Rent Commencement Date.

Bailiffs stripped the Forester's Arms last year when Mr Helm could not keep up rent payments .

peppercorn

Fortunately the ground comes cheap, leased from the patron Lord Camrose on a peppercorn rent .

rebate

Normally you will have to pay this fixed amount, even if you get a full rent rebate .

Filled in a new rent rebate form.

The grants include scholarships and maintenance awards for students is well as rent rebates and allowances.

review

A major change in the composition of the index is one of the gambles inherent in this form of rent review .

The effect on the final rent review would be even more drastic.

This reflects the second five year rent review for Head Office which took place in 1989 and became effective from August 1989.

The interrelationship of this clause with the rent review clause should be considered.

Commercially, such a rent review clause may work to the disadvantage of either party.

The tenant will, however, need to ensure that too wide a use will not have adverse consequences on rent review .

rise

Average rent rises of £2-£2.50 a week would result in an average rent of about £27.25.

The proposed rent rise was no bigger than those of other local district councils, he said.

Council tenants also face a 60% rent rise .

strike

But the rent strikes brought her out to the world with her small fists clenched in a white-knuckle fury.

She organised a rent strike and got her whole street rehoused.

There could be a rent strike , a rates strike, or both.

■ VERB

afford

We couldn't afford to buy and rents are exorbitant.

They can not afford the extra rent and if they are driven away they will starve.

Many can afford the rents but find themselves excluded - often ostensibly because they have children.

Morgan must have done quite well out of his business, being able to afford the rent on the entire house.

She could afford to pay rent - for she had decided there was no way she was moving into Ivy Cottage.

Council Houses are a valuable asset for those who can not buy or afford private rents .

The landlord Les Helm could not afford the rent payments under the new lease as his rent had gone up sevenfold.

But he claims he could not afford the rent out of his £61-a-week benefit.

charge

Unless you charge a fortune in rent , it follows that rental yields tend to be lower on more expensive properties.

The Housing Act 1957 vested the management of local authority houses in the Corporation and gave it power to charge reasonable rents .

Said he didn't charge her much rent for her flat.

Halls normally charge a term's rent in advance.

Freedom to charge higher rents will reopen some doors but the court orders still necessary to remove tenants could block real advances.

Tenants will receive the money in a lump sum but will also be charged a low rent while repairs are carried out.

collect

Many of them do not even bother to collect rents .

In regulated industries such as trucking and airlines, workers collected some of the rents that accrued from regulation.

These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.

We could just sit back and collect rents from an ever-decreasing number of tenants.

Council houses and flats are owned by the districts who maintain them and collect the rents .

He too had abandoned Mayo, leaving an agent to manage the estate and collect the rents .

When you invited me to stay here, I didn't realise you planned to collect the rent in kind.

A VAT-registered landlord may have a managing agent to collect standard-rated rents .

determine

An umpire was appointed to determine the rent of a mill.

If the parties wish to adduce evidence in support of their cases, the appropriate way of determining the rent is by arbitration.

pay

I got slung out of my flat when I couldn't pay the rent , and wound up in a hostel.

Others were living in places that made them ill or were paying high rents .

Either she pays her rent or she can buy a property and pay £500 a month mortgage.

He pays the rent by tending bar and working for a couple of unlicensed moving companies.

You must also have a rent book, if you pay rent weekly, as proof of your financial transactions.

I had not paid the rent for the second half of the month.

They still owed the grocer and Dad said he had had to pay another month's rent .

Relatives helped care for her children while she was in school, and they paid her rent .

raise

Improvements to rented property may raise rents to the detriment of the producers as opposed to the landowners.

Increasing demand allowed landowners to raise rents and grant leases on less advantageous terms.

Richmondshire council was raising its rents by £3 and Sedgefield borough council by £2.95.

The management at South Forks raised the rent in anticipation of downtown businesses relocating.

His Landlord, designing profit himself by it, by raising his rent or otherwise proposing to turn him out.

receive

He received manors and rents from the earl.

The trust spends £100,000 to buy land in the United Kingdom and receives rent of £1,000.

Until recently, any money you received in rent was counted as part of your taxable income.

The farmer receives a rent of £15,000 a year and is relieved of the need to do any work for it.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

If my landlord raises the rent again, I'll have to look for somewhere smaller.

Office rents are highest in the city centre.

She pays £350 a month rent for a one-bedroomed apartment.

The rent is $850 a month.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

At a staggering £385 a week rent .

His regular commitments - rent , electricity, etc. - are £38.08 and 50p insurance.

It also established the first Crofters Commission as a permanent body empowered to fix fair rents and administer crofting legislation.

Many S corporation owners are rich people on paper but can barely pay the rent .

Meyer said the shortage of apartments and continued pressure on rents would continue for the next three years.

One resident was evicted after she withheld rent .

The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.

When they could pay rent , they did.

III.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

out

Now it transpires he owns a portfolio of around eight properties that he either lives in or rents out .

Just get some samples together, print up pretentious business cards, inflate values, rent out tent space and voila!

He had a great love of music and when the rehearsal rooms were rented out would join the musicians.

Later she got a second loan, which she used to buy a rickshaw which she rents out to the villagers.

She ran a caravan site and rented out grazing and stables at the lowest rate in the neighbourhood - naturally!

In addition to the City-organized leagues, there are also independent leagues that rent out the San Francisco fields for their use.

Then taking in a lodger or renting out a room may be the answer.

Recently it had been rented out to a whole parcel of Negroes, who had left the state.

■ NOUN

apartment

He moved out of the hotel and into some serviced apartments that rented by the week and were slightly cheaper.

The rental market is so tight that applicants battle one another for apartments that often are rented in hours or days.

Do you know what studio apartments are renting for in this neighborhood?

Cleveland Street proposed all three-bedroom apartments , renting for $ 873.

Shomof's units are not lofts, but apartments and condominiums renting for $ 759 for a one-bedroom.

From there he goes to the apartment that White has rented for him.

car

She'd flown to Bordeaux the previous day, and rented a car at the airport.

Twenty minutes after they had arrived, Bodnar turned up in his rented car .

McCready rented a car and drove past Hildesheim and Salzgitter to his destination in the forests outside Goslar.

Slopeside lodgings cost more, but often you are spared the expense of renting a car .

I rented a car and two buses for the funeral.

He felt like calling the airline immediately and flying nonstop to Shannon, then renting a car and driving to Sligo.

Traveling with a child would remove some suspicion, as would renting a car on arrival, and using two-way tickets.

cottage

They had rented a cottage overlooking the sea on the East Hill at Hastings.

Hewlett rented a cottage behind their house in Palo Alto.

One Easter, we rented a cottage in Sandwick.

In the kitchen of our rented seaside cottage , something was moving.

I understand that you have rented the cottage , miss.

With Marjorie, she rented a tiny cottage at the edge of a dairy farm in Dorset, Vermont.

Today they have a 14-year-old son and rent a tiny white cottage in Delano.

family

In 1952, the family rented an 800-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment that the elderly couple still call home.

Everything the family built was easily rented and money was plentiful.

Another 800 families rent apartments in the city at their own expense, spending on average about half of their military pay.

After a few days of traveling on the bus without the family car, they rented a pickup truck.

This bitter struggle was personified by the Soong family , for years rent by political differences and petty jealousies.

flat

By that time I'd heard my pimp was in custody, and I started renting a flat .

They bought small frame homes or rented flats .

It was too big for her to look after alone, and it would save him the expense of renting a flat .

I did the right thing, he told himself, renting that flat .

We could rent one of those flats they are proposing to build.

It cost money to rent a town centre flat and everyone was neurotic about burglars.

home

She is planning to move into the house on Monday from the home she rented in Eldon Street, Darlington.

They bought small frame homes or rented flats.

Increasingly, Potton's customers will sell their homes and rent while their Potton home is being built.

The price is pegged at about $ 30 per month. Home is expected to rent the modems.

A more modest seven-bedroom, 6 and 1 / 2-bath home can be rented for $ 125, 000.

Howard and his sister lived there five years, enjoying the home , and have rented it for the past decade.

Some of the temporary Olympic landlords are moving in with relatives while their homes are rented .

house

The second day he started looking for a house to rent .

Then the owner arrived and broke the news: The house had been rented a few days before.

Now the government's being called on to allow councils to buy repossessed houses and rent them out.Simon Garrett reports.

Know approximately how large a house you want to rent .

I am delighted with the house I am renting from him.

Most landlords comply, and let government inspectors roam through the bedrooms and bathrooms of the houses they rent out.

The scheme to buy up empty houses and rent them to homeless families will help to solve two problems.

land

Foreigners would also be allowed to rent land .

Besides, in most vacation areas the locals learn to give a wide berth to tourists in their rented land yachts.

The 500,000 state farm workers would now be able to organize themselves as trading companies and rent the land as individuals.

We rented a plot of land and so I would have to take the meal out to my husband at mid-day.

More important was the status of loans raised to buy or rent land and erect a stadium.

Some leased part of their own tenements while renting additional land .

money

It cost money to rent a town centre flat and everyone was neurotic about burglars.

To save money , Helen rented a Western-style, white gown with a matching veil.

Enterprising police departments in California are earning money by renting out motel rooms as weekend jails.

office

You could rent office space and video equipment there.

See what the normal start-up costs are for renting and furnishing an office , a salesroom, or a studio.

Most City firms rent their office space from the big institutions that invest in commercial developments.

About two years ago, Afara said, Nancy called up and asked to rent a post office box.

It rented an office in Knightsbridge for a while and actually bought a house in Tunbridge Wells.

place

They are suddenly faced with finding a place to rent and budgeting the cost of living.

I decided that Farmington was not a good place for renting .

And there might be places to rent , but I just couldn't afford them.

One of my last interviews took place in a rented hotel room filled with cheap, nondescript tables.

I found a place to rent and Nick came with me to look at it.

Remember the place you rented At the end of a muddy lane Somewhere near Muckamore?

Students not in residential places usually rent accommodation or take lodgings in the city.

property

Even the cities were secured by the settlers: native people were confined to rented property in peripheral townships.

Taxes on rented and business property are a different story.

No one else rents the property , although our client does sometimes have guests to stay overnight during his weekend visits.

Property: Don't let yourself in for trouble Choosing the right agent is essential if you want to rent your property .

Estate agents openly refuse to rent property to foreigners and several bath houses have banned gaijin.

Make like you are prospective clients, looking to rent a secluded property to write a book or something.

The more people seeking to rent small properties reduces void periods, times when the property is empty.

There may be opportunities to rent out existing service property or surplus service property.

room

For a few days, she had become a hermit, closeted in the small room which Sam had rented .

It may be a cabin in the woods or a motel room that you rent at the beach.

I left the woman's house as soon as I found work and a room to rent .

The two men stood in the room rented by the Stock and Exchange Board.

He had a great love of music and when the rehearsal rooms were rented out would join the musicians.

They have another room to rent .

From the tack room Umberto's snores rent the air.

Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry.

space

You could rent office space and video equipment there.

Just get some samples together, print up pretentious business cards, inflate values, rent out tent space and voila!

Most City firms rent their office space from the big institutions that invest in commercial developments.

Everybody is having to rent space in this dangerous studio.

They will decide who will rent the space .

He rented a large space and hired several assistants.

Campers usually supply sleeping bags, food, drinks and other vehicles, which can be rented if additional space is required.

He sells his Turnstile Adsleeves to sports arenas, which rent the space to advertisers.

truck

So we had to rent a forklift truck from somewhere, then manhandle the saw into the workshop.

Pieces from the inside of the rented Ryder truck box.

After a few days of traveling on the bus without the family car, they rented a pickup truck .

So they rented a truck and drove through the countryside around the Cusiana prospect.

video

Video those magic moving moments ... Capture those moving moments - for ever, when you rent a video camera from Radio Rentals.

Customers would go in and give their five-digit card number to rent videos .

You could rent office space and video equipment there.

■ VERB

buy

Now the government's being called on to allow councils to buy repossessed houses and rent them out.Simon Garrett reports.

You can decide whether you wish to buy , lease or rent them.

But people do buy and rent in the valley, drawn by location, accessibility and affordability.

Should you buy or rent equipment?

On their end, customers will have to install network interface cards in their computers and buy or rent special cable modems.

More important was the status of loans raised to buy or rent land and erect a stadium.

charge

Quite apart from any other reason, if I charged you rent , it would give you security of tenure.

Your goal should be to charge enough rent to cover the mortgage payment, maintenance and other expenses.

own

Premises and equipment are owned or rented by the person carrying on the business. 2.

If they did not own property, they rented rooms wherever they could find them.

It is also becoming polarized between those who own and those who rent their houses.

Will such organisations own information or merely rent it?

The Old Arab ought to know; he owned both dhows, rented them to Husayn and Shaaban.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry.

He rented a further acre of land and erected five kilns, a drying floor and engine house.

I had to rent a driveway across the street.

Imagine tossing the keys to a 300-horsepower rented Corvette to a seventeen-year-old boy who likes race cars.

Instead, many fell upon him and rent him.

It was something connected with three students who rented their house some years ago.

Later, they rented an apartment to other refugees in a building they own.

Of the 4,190,000 households entitled to rent rebates only 2,930,000 received them.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.