Rent Rented Land House Pay Money Agreed Verb

• to live in rented accommodation/housing/property
• in the long run, it works out more expensive to rent a television than to buy one.
• who do you rent the land from?
• he rents rooms in his house to students.

rent

1. to regularly pay money to somebody so that you can use something that they own, such as a house, some land, a machine, etc.
• See related entries: Renting a home
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• to live in rented accommodation/housing/property
• In the long run, it works out more expensive to rent a television than to buy one.
• Who do you rent the land from?
2. to allow somebody to use something that you own such as a house or some land in exchange for regular payments
• He rents rooms in his house to students.
• The land is rented out to other farmers.
• She agreed to rent the room to me.
• She agreed to rent me the room.
3. to pay money to somebody so that you can use something for a short period of time
• compare hire
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/hire_1
• We rented a car for the week and explored the area.
• Shall we rent a movie this evening?
4. to be available for somebody to use if they pay a particular amount of money
• The apartment rents for $500 a month.

Extra Examples

• They agreed to rent the land to me.
• We rented a cottage from an agency.
• We rented our house out for a year when we went abroad.
• privately rented accommodation
• He had a list of movies they had rented from the local video store.
• She rented a car at the airport.
• They rented a meeting room in a downtown hotel.
• You can rent mountain bikes and explore the area.

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they rent
• he / she / it rents
• past simple rented
• past participle rented
• -ing form renting

Word Origin

• verb Middle English: from Old French rente, from a root shared by render.