Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - rent

(rents, renting, rented) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. 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. VERB: V n, V-ed 2. 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. VERB: V n to n • Rent out means the same as rent. He rented out his house while he worked abroad... He repaired the boat, and rented it out for $150. PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron), V n P 3. 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... N-VAR 4. Rent is the past tense and past participle of rend. 5. see also ground rent, peppercorn rent