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rent verb2. LME.
[Old & mod. French renter, from rente: see RENT noun1.]
verb trans. Provide with revenues; endow. LME-L15.
verb trans. Let (property) for rent or payment; hire out. LME.
R. P. Jhabvala The sea captains' houses were rented out for the season. K. Vonnegut I persuaded her to rent their..potato barn to me.
verb trans. & intrans. Pay rent for (land, buildings, etc.); occupy or use by payment of rent. M16.
R. Berthoud They would sometimes rent a cottage at Sizewell. She He rented videos for me to watch. New York Review of Books New Yorkers rent They don't buy.
verb intrans. Be let at or for a certain rent. Now chiefly N. Amer. L18.
verb trans. Charge (a person) rent. rare. L19.
verb trans. Obtain money from (a person) by criminal means or in exchange for homosexual favours. L19.
Comb.: rent-a-car, rent-a-cop, rent-a-crowd, rent-a-room, etc., a car, policeman, crowd, room, etc., that is readily available for hire or (joc. or derog.) easily or instantly acquired.
renta'bility noun the fact or condition of being rentable E19.
rentable adjective (a) rare liable to pay rent; (b) available or suitable for renting; (c) Economics giving an adequate ratio of profit to capital: M17.
rented adjective (a) (now rare) having or endowed with property yielding a revenue; (b) let for rent; leased, tenanted: LME.