See Also: frankly(dictionary)
frankly(dictionary)

rental (iou) and frankly (iou)


rental (iou)



rental noun & adjective. LME.
[Anglo-Norman, or Anglo-Latin rentale: formed as RENT noun1 + -AL1.]
A. noun.
a. A register of the rents owed by tenants to a landlord; a rent-roll. Now chiefly Scot. LME.
b. An income arising from rents received. LME.
a. An amount paid or received as rent. LME.
Money Management When tenant demand outstrips supply, rentals shoot up.
b. A house, car, etc., let out for rent. Chiefly N. Amer. M20.
J. Didion The apartment..a one-bedroom rental.
Scottish History. A lease granted by a landlord to a tenant so entitled by right of birth or inheritance. M16.
The fact or process of renting or letting property etc. E20.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Of or relating to renting. LME.
P. Auster The rental agencies carry on a sort of business.
Comb.: rental library (chiefly US) a library at which a charge is made for the loan of books.

frankly (iou)



frankly adverb. M16.
[from FRANK adjective1 + -LY2.]
Freely; without restriction or restraint. M16-E17.
Generously, bountifully; unconditionally, unreservedly. Now rare. M16.
C. Bront? The power of meriting the kindness..so frankly offered.
Without concealment or reserve; avowedly, openly, plainly. M16.
E. Bowen Quite frankly, the country gives me the creeps. J. Barth Wingate told me frankly I was a damn fool. A. T. Ellis The tourist haunts were..frankly bent on commerce and communication.
With freedom of artistic expression. M19.