Rental
['rent(ə)l] or ['rɛntl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car).
(adj.) of or relating to rent; 'rental agreement'; 'rental charges' .
(adj.) available to rent or lease; 'a rental car' .
Typed by Harley--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.
(n.) A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.
Editor: Louise
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Rent-roll.
Typed by Audrey
Examples
- He also indicated the two methods of telephonic tariff--a fixed rental and a toll; and mentioned the practice, now in use on long-distance lines, of a time charge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This idea was strengthened shortly afterward when the Western Union raised the monthly rental of the stock tickers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The broad problem which he set himself was to provide handsome and practically indestructible detached houses, which could be taken by wage-earners at very moderate monthly rentals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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