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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rental
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
video
▪ The first video rental store in your neighborhood had a monopoly, but pretty soon every supermarket and 7-Eleven offered video rentals.
▪ One person I know moved to a seaside town in 1982 and soon recognized the need for a video rental shop.
▪ In the world of video rental stores, there is no sin as egregious as failing to rewind the video.
■ NOUN
car
▪ Claire, Mark and Babur head off to find a car rental place.
▪ A car rental company subcontracts out the repair and maintenance of its fleet, and focuses on renting.
▪ My most vivid memory is not the accident, but my telephone call to the car rental company later that morning.
▪ That in turn caused the car rental companies to keep their vehicles in circulation longer.
▪ For the independent traveller, car rentals are special bargains.
▪ The holding company manages the investments of local businessman Wayne Huizenga in, among other things, car rental companies.
▪ The trip includes airfare, accommodation, car rental and admission tickets to the golf course for all practice and match days.
company
▪ My most vivid memory is not the accident, but my telephone call to the car rental company later that morning.
▪ A car rental company subcontracts out the repair and maintenance of its fleet, and focuses on renting.
▪ Leasametric has now jumped on the Tadpole bandwagon and will be an Sparcbook authorised rental company.
▪ That in turn caused the car rental companies to keep their vehicles in circulation longer.
▪ The holding company manages the investments of local businessman Wayne Huizenga in, among other things, car rental companies.
firm
▪ Car rental firms have found it hard to increase their prices to cover these higher costs.
▪ Agents took the vehicle identification number from the axle and within hours traced the truck to the Ryder rental firm.
income
▪ Second, actual or projected rental income may fail to materialise.
▪ He added that rental income was sufficient to cover interest payments.
▪ Most of the distribution fee, which can be around 30% of the film's rental income, goes to the studio.
line
▪ It will cost a flat rate of £39.99 per month, which includes line rental and installation.
▪ Thames Valley Police forked out thousands of pounds on line rentals and calls for 60 customers after giving the company out-of-date records.
▪ The aim of this announcement was therefore to offer packages for specific purposes all including line rental.
market
▪ But its lead could bring about a profound change in the car rental market.
▪ In 1989, then Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley aimed to free up the rental market by abolishing rent controls.
value
▪ Space savings can also provide hard cost savings, although this, of course, depends on commercial property rental values.
▪ They are supposed to be related to rental values, but little property is rented on a year-to-year basis.
▪ An experienced team provides advice on rental values.
▪ In addition the costs of the determination will remain a reasonable proportion of the rental value of the property.
▪ Landlords were not seeking any advantage in the regulations but merely wanted to ensure that the rental value of holdings was maintained.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
rental costs
▪ Car rental is $200 a week and you need a clean driving licence.
▪ Card holders get special deals on car rentals and hotels.
▪ Ski rental is $14.
▪ The rental on the TV includes maintenance and repairs.
▪ the pros and cons of buying a rental
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An apartment rental agency is the first stop for many shoppers.
▪ Claire, Mark and Babur head off to find a car rental place.
▪ For some people, the abandoned paperbacks they find in their rental house offer unexpected pleasures.
▪ Her fans can see how she has managed it in Braveworld's September 28 rental video release Family of Strangers.
▪ Sega did allow rentals, but charged a huge licensing fee, making them a bad deal, he said.
▪ Several years ago he was remodeling a garage at his West University dwelling into a rental.
▪ So lessees can generally expect the rental on operating leases to be higher than finance leases.
▪ Under the new legislation, overdue bills also can not be transferred to owners or subsequent tenants of the rental in question.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rental

Rental \Rent"al\ (-al), n. [LL. rentale, fr. renta. See Rent income.]

  1. A schedule, account, or list of rents, with the names of the tenants, etc.; a rent roll.

  2. A sum total of rents; as, an estate that yields a rental of ten thousand dollars a year.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rental

mid-14c., "rent roll;" late 14c., "income from rents," from Anglo-French rental, Medieval Latin rentale; see rent (n.1) + -al (2). Meaning "amount charged for rent" is from 1630s; that of "a car or house let for rent" is from 1952, American English.

Wiktionary
rental

a. 1 Relating to rent. 2 Relating to renting. n. 1 (context slang English) Short term for something that is rented. 2 The payment made to rent something.

WordNet
rental
  1. adj. available to rent or lease; "a rental car"

  2. of or relating to rent; "rental agreement"; "rental charges"

rental
  1. n. property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: lease, letting]

  2. the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) [syn: renting]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "rental".

This, with a well paid rental of upwards of L100,000 per annum, makes the life of this happy pair pass in an uninterrupted stream of fashionable felicity.

The standard rental agreement allows for instant expulsion of those who fall under Hortator ostracization, without notice or advertisement.

The standard rental agreement allows for instant expulsion of those who fall under Hortator osctracization, without notice or advertisement.

He asked Moosh to identify Salameh, who had become infamous for his Ryder van rental dispute.

He needed to check in with Piney, return calls from the factory, and run by a couple of the rental units.

Office of Price Administration regulated the price of almost all commodities, as well as the rentals for housing accommodations in scores of defense rental areas.

Hotel records show Atta renting rooms in the same area until July 19, when he returned his rental car in Madrid and flew back to Fort Lauderdale.

An order by an Area Rent Director reducing an unapproved rental and requiring the landlord to refund the excess previously collected, was held, with one dissenting vote, not to be the type of retroactivity which is condemned by law.

Boat Rental, obtained a bucket of squirmy bait, and gathered up the fishing gear, they were launched, and the brats characteristically misbehaved.

Rapp decided to leave him in the plane under the watchful eye of Stroble, rather than risk one of the locals seeing a bound and gagged man being stuffed into a rental car.

I still had a nice glow, thanks to the tanning bed at Bon Temps Video Rental.

It was a little rental house, one story and no basement, in this country where most houses had basements or root cellars, and it was faded to a dim green with a gray shingled roof and even though they knew she was inside it looked empty and unlived in.

Dale walked past the main building, noted the high stack of firewood there and the chopping stump and the ax embedded in it and the pile of wood chips and unstacked wood, looking as if the owners were preparing for a hard winter, and then he was waiting for the teenaged boy in khaki pants and a green Pine Barrens Canoe Rental shirt to finish helping two women shove off into the easy current.

Not content with running the rental plate and billing for his car, she had spent the past hour acquiring a dossier on the renter, Marvin Argus from Chicago, who now smiled at her from the glowing screen.

Pausing, she wiped the beads of perspiration from her forehead and glanced at the rental van parked in front of the broodmare barn.