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Rent Rented Pay Money Regularly Sum House Worked

word rent
definition
verb
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.
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.
He rented out his house while he worked abroad.
He repaired the boat, and rented it out for $150.
noun
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.
Traders in Marble Arch are facing huge rent increases.
other
Rent is the past tense and past participle of rend .
inflections rentsrentingrented
cefr-level B1

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