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Definition: Rental |
RentalAdjective1. Available to rent or lease; "a rental car". 2. Of or relating to rent; "rental agreement"; "rental charges". Noun1. Property that is leased or rented out or let. 2. The act of paying for the use of something (an apartment or house or car). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "rental" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
Etymology: Rental \Rent"al\ (-al), noun. [from Late Latin expression rentale, from renta. See Rent income.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A common term used on irrigation projects in U. S. A. for water service or sale of water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | Payment(s)due to a GSM PLMN operator or an authorized agent for the access to certain services for the designated periods. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RentalSynonyms: lease (n), letting (n), renting (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Mart | Tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store; lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer. |
Receipt | Rent, rent roll; rental, rentage; rack-rent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's a rental, are you the guardian in question (Lilo & Stitch; writing credit: Chris Sanders) That's definitely not a rental. (The Tuxedo; writing credit: Dave Foley) The family had just arrived from Tokyo and was driving a low rates rental car. (Random Encounter; writing credit: Matt Dorff) | |
Lyrics | It's mental, mash your enemies, we out in the rental (Down Ass Bitch; performing artist: Ja Rule) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Summer Rental (1985) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A water side bait, tackle and boat rental shop at Lewes. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Some of the gear supplied for small rental recreational fishing boats. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Gertie. Gertie gazing into store with cat and sign "to rent" then holding rental office clerk at gunpoint to get cat out. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The bones of tenants whose burial rental was not renewed--Santa Cruz Cemetery, Manila. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Registration of rental property. San Diego, California. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Mexican quarter of Los Angeles, California. Average rental eight dollars. Some houses have plumbing. See card 1799-C for detailed information. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Strathmore, California. Orange picker's camp. One dollar a week rental. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Trailer and tent-camp at Mission Valley, California, which is about three miles from San Diego. The charge for pitching tents in this camp is two dollars and fifty cents per week and rental fee entitles campers to electricity and use of sanitary faciliti. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Brandscape" by Anders Skovgaard-Petersen Commentary: "An old water tower with the AVIS car rental logo on it. Beneath that you can se the remains of an older Ford logo." | "Mountain through the Palms" by John Mason Commentary: "A shot out the back of our vacation rental on Kauai." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The delimitation of these areas, and their equipment, their exploitation, and in general all conditions for their utilisation, including the amount of the rental, shall be decided by a Commission consisting of one delegate of Germany, one delegate of the Czecho-Slovak State and one delegate of Great Britain. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Rental payments are due in advance. (references) | |
Companies providing rental equipment tend to specialize. (references) | ||
However, the main buyers were, and remain the car rental companies for the tourist market. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Bosnia and Herzegovina | The suspected motive for the attack was Beslic's investigation into irregularities in the contract signed between a local cafe owner and the SDP for the rental. (references) |
Macedonia | Approximately 2,100 of the total registered refugee population reside in centers; however, the remaining 5,500 live with host families or in rental accommodations. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Video rental libraries provide a wide variety of films to their borrowers, and government efforts to enforce censorship on these rental films are sporadic and ineffectual. (references) | |
Economic History | Croatia | Hertz and Budget rental car agencies are also in Croatia. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Rental car companies and car dealerships service the entire country. (references) | |
Netherlands | Many rental companies are small and have no more than eight to 30 boats. (references) | |
Political Economy | NIGERIA | This act was amended in 1999 to include video rental and security devices. (references) |
ROMANIA | The cost of doing business in Romania is relatively high for the region, particularly for office rental, transportation and telecommunication services. (references) | |
NICARAGUA | Copyrights: Despite decreasing over the past year, pirated videos are still widely available in video rental stores nationwide, as are pirated audiocassettes and software. (references) | |
Trade | Eritrea | For taxes on personal income, rental income, and unincorporated business income, it proposes a five-rate structure, with a top marginal rate of 30 percent. (references) |
Finland | A uniform tax rate of 28 percent on capital gains took effect in 1996, which includes dividends, rental income, insurance, savings, forestry income, and corporate profits. (references) | |
Burma | The government is now demanding payment in hard currency for an increasing number of local expenses, including the local management salaries, telephone service and property rental. (references) | |
Travel | Cape Verde | Taxis and rental Cars. (references) |
Pakistan | Rental of cars with drivers is recommended. (references) | |
Honduras | Several car rental companies are also available. (references) | |
Women | Saint Lucia | The Domestic Violence Act allows a judge to issue a protection order prohibiting an abuser from entering or remaining in the place where the victim is. It also allows the judge to order that an abuser's name be removed from housing leases or rental agreements, with the effect that the abuser would no longer have the right to live in the same residence as the victim. (references) |
Worker Rights | Russia | The majority of its income comes from sources other than dues, such as rental income, sale of real estate, and fees for member services. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Legislation, resting on the fullest constitutional authority of the Federal Government, to prohibit racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Lower income households, the elderly and those dependent upon rental housing face rising rents, low levels of rental housing construction by historic standards, and the threat of displacement due to conversion to condominiums and other factors. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Rental" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.57% of the time. "Rental" is used about 470 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.57% | 468 | 12,622 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.43% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 470 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Japan | Nippan Rental Company Limited | USA | ANC Rental Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "rental": car rental ♦ car rental agency ♦ housing rental agency ♦ rental agreement ♦ rental building ♦ rental car ♦ rental charge ♦ rental collection ♦ rental company ♦ rental contract ♦ rental income ♦ rental library ♦ residential rental. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "rental": car-rental, ex-rental, private-rental, wage-rental. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
car rental | 76,704 | rental house | 2,770 |
budget car rental | 15,957 | california vacation rental | 2,654 |
national car rental | 12,730 | auto rental | 2,586 |
enterprise car rental | 10,991 | dvd rental | 2,438 |
vacation rental | 8,504 | van rental | 2,189 |
rental | 6,464 | budget rental | 2,078 |
truck rental | 5,776 | moving truck rental | 1,905 |
rv rental | 5,499 | ryder truck rental | 1,809 |
beach rental | 5,418 | lcd projector rental | 1,754 |
thrifty car rental | 4,858 | projector rental | 1,713 |
dollar car rental | 4,409 | party rental | 1,579 |
apartment rental | 4,370 | movie rental online | 1,508 |
alamo car rental | 4,058 | kauai vacation rental | 1,463 |
hertz rental car | 3,677 | rental agreement | 1,460 |
home rental | 3,663 | rental car company | 1,459 |
cheap car rental | 3,533 | budget truck rental | 1,427 |
avis rental car | 3,434 | vacation rental hawaii | 1,348 |
discount car rental | 3,099 | advantage car rental | 1,343 |
cabin rental | 3,048 | motor home rental | 1,339 |
vacation rental yosemite | 2,843 | florida vacation rental | 1,176 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "rental"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shumë qirasë, listë arendatoreve. (various references) | |
Arabic | كراء اجرة, تأجيري (rented), سجل الايجارات, اجرة سكن. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | рента (rent), фирма за даване под наем, нещо дадено под наем, наем (hire, lease, render, rent), даване под наем. (various references) | |
Chinese | 租务. (various references) | |
Czech | pachtovné, pùjèovné (hire), nájemné (rent), èinže (rent). (various references) | |
Danish | vandfordeling (water distribution), leje (hire, rent), husleje (rent), forpagtningsafgift (farm rent, rent). (various references) | |
Dutch | huur (hire, rent, rent money). (various references) | |
Farsi | وجه اجاره , اجاره نامه (Lease), اجاره ای . (various references) | |
Finnish | vuokratulo, vuokrahinta (farm rent, rent), vuokra (hire, lease, rent), vedenjakelu (water distribution). (various references) | |
French | loyer (rent, rent money), location (renting). (various references) | |
Frisian | hier (hair, hire, rent). (various references) | |
German | Miete (charge, clamp, lease, leasing, rent), Mietbetrag. (various references) | |
Greek | μίσθωμα (rent), ενοίκιο (rent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | דמי שכירות (rent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bérlet (lease, let, season ticket, tenement), bérjövedelem. (various references) | |
Indonesian | setoran (deposit, rental fee, stored commodity). (various references) | |
Italian | reddito locativo, prezzo di noleggio, noleggio (charter, freight, hire, rent), distribuzione di acqua (water distribution), distribuzione dell'acqua (water distribution, water supply), distribuzione d'acqua (water distribution), canone di affitto, canone d'affitto (farm rent, rent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | レンズ雲 (hire car, lemma, lenticularis, level, rebel, rendering, rent-a-cycle, rental room, rental system, rental video, review, X-ray). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | レンタル . (various references) | |
Korean | 임대료. (various references) | |
Manx | mayl (rent), cheet-stiagh mail. (various references) | |
Papiamen | hür (hire, let, rent, rent out). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | entalray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aluguer (hire, rent). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | aluguel. (various references) | |
Romanian | rol (character, concern, list, part, role), locativ (tenant's), listã (bill, book, calendar, catalogue, list, panel, register, repertory, roll, roster, rota, schedule, scroll, table). (various references) | |
Russian | арендная плата (rent). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | iznajmljivanje (charter, lease, leasing, let). (various references) | |
Spanish | renta (allowance, income, pension, rent, revenue, unearned income), alquiler (charter, hire, leasing, let, rent, renting). (various references) | |
Swedish | uthyrning (hire, lease, letting), hyra (berth, charter, hire, lease, Lodge, rent, rent money, residential rental, room, tenant). (various references) | |
Turkish | kiralık evlerin listesi, kiralık eşya, kiralık (at livery, for hire, for rent, on hire, to let, to rent), kira bedeli (lease, rent), kira (hire, rent). (various references) | |
Turkmen | kireя, kдrende. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сума орендної плати, список орендарів, рентний прибуток. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thư viện cho thuê sách (rental library). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "rental": rentals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "rental": biparental, grandparental, parental, uniparental. (additional references) | |
Words containing "rental": biparentally, parentally, uniparentally. (additional references) | |
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"Rental" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bental, Bentall, cental, gental, rantle, rastal, Rastall, reital, renald, renat, Renatel, Renbad, Rendal, rendel, Renitelo, Renshall, rentaf, Rentas, rentee, renual, Renzan, retaw, retna, retnal, Rinteln, rnta, roncal, Rostal, runtl, sentul, Trental, vental. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "rental" (pronounced re"ntul) |
| 5 | -e" n t u l | accidental, coincidental, compartmental, continental, dental, detrimental, developmental, elemental, environmental, experimental, fundamental, gentle, incidental, incremental, supplemental, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, lentil, mental, monumental, nongovernmental, occidental, oriental, ornamental, parental, regimental, sentimental, transcendental, transcontinental, unsentimental. |
| 4 | -n t u l | infantile, Cantle, consonantal, disgruntle, dismantle, frontal, governmental, horizontal, lintel, mantel, mantle, periodontal, prefrontal, quintal, Wintle. |
| 3 | -t u l | infertile, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bicoastal, bottle, brattle, Bristol, brittle, brutal, butyl, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coastal, committal, congenital, crustal, crystal, digital, distal, ductile, embattle, entitle, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, futile, genital, glottal, hospital, hostel, hostile, hurtle, immortal, immotile, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, tactile, tattle, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, little, marital, metal, mettle, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nonvolatile, occipital, orbital, parietal, pedestal, petal, Pistil, pistol, pivotal, portal, postal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, premarital, prenatal, projectile, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, resettle, scuttle, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transmittal, turtle, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vestal, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: antler, learnt. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: alert, alter, antre, artel, laten, later, leant, learn, ratel, renal, taler. | |
-2 letters: ante, earl, earn, elan, etna, lane, late, lean, lear, lent, near, neat, rale, rant, rate, real, rent, tael, tale, tare, tarn, teal, tear, tela, tern. | |
-3 letters: ale, alt, ane, ant, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ern, eta, lar, lat, lea. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: antlers, central, enteral, enthral, eternal, lantern, latrine, neutral, planter, ratline, reliant, rentals, replant, retinal, saltern, sternal, tangler, teleran, trenail, ventral. | |
+2 letters: alerting, alterant, altering, antheral, antlered, ardently, argental, asternal, auntlier, centrals, clarinet, dentural, elaterin, entailer, enthrall, enthrals, entrails, errantly, eternals, external, flaunter, inertial, inflater, integral, interlap, interlay, internal, interval, lamenter, lanneret, lanterns, lateener, latrines, leathern, levanter, maternal, neutrals, oriental, ornately, outlearn, parental, parlante, paternal, plankter, planters, prenatal, preplant, ratlines, regental, relating, relation, relaxant, relearnt, relevant, rentable, replants, retinals, retinula, salterns, slattern, strangle, tanglers, tanglier, tarletan, telerans, tenurial, terminal, tolerant, tramline, trapline, trawlnet, treelawn, treenail, trenails, triangle, triplane, turnable, twangler, unlearnt, ventrals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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