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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rented
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a rented flat
▪ He returned to his rented flat in Cheltenham.
a rented house (=one owned by someone who rents it to people)
▪ She shares a rented house with three other students.
rented accommodation
rented accommodation
the rented sector (=homes that people can rent)
▪ We have lost 2 million homes from the rented sector.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
privately
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
▪ Conversely, privately rented dwellings had fallen in proportion from 44.6 percent at the former date to 16 percent in 1975.
▪ In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ She has two children aged four and two years, and lives in a privately rented unfurnished flat.
▪ For many in local authority or privately rented accommodation, the sense of frustration and powerlessness can be overwhelming.
▪ A third of local authority dwellings lack any central heating, as does 64% of unfurnished privately rented accommodation.
■ NOUN
accommodation
▪ The group will also recommend improved access to private rented accommodation through rent deposit schemes.
▪ An overwhelming proportion of private rented accommodation is to be found in the major cities, notably London and Liverpool.
▪ This would apply to rented accommodation, council houses, etc.
▪ Many potential homeowners decided to sit out the recession in rented accommodation, leaving their money in high-earning accounts.
▪ In fact, only about half of young higher education students live in privately rented accommodation.
▪ About four in 10 companies provide rented accommodation but only a fifth provide a housing allowance.
▪ They remain very vulnerable in privately rented accommodation as they can often be ignorant of their rights.
▪ Ed, who lives in rented accommodation, plans to use the money as a down-payment on a house.
house
▪ The sale of the remaining rented houses to private or housing association landlords has been less successful.
▪ When shall we have the affordable rented houses that people need?
▪ They returned to North Coates where they were to share a rented house with another officer and his wife.
▪ They were to evict a couple and their three children from a rented house.
▪ Lewis, the defending champion here, was at a secret address in a specially rented house with his family.
▪ The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford.
▪ Derek Dooley and his family are due to leave their private rented house in Louisa Street in June.
housing
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
▪ These councils do not collect their rents and have lost control of their rented housing stock.
▪ Some companies also reimburse costs incurred through premature termination of contracts for leased or rented housing as a result of the relocation.
▪ The report points out that the idea of local housing companies as landlord bodies for social rented housing originated in Glasgow.
▪ We will therefore create a new Partnership Housing sector to ensure high-quality affordable rented housing.
Housing associations, which are in the private sector, are now the main providers of new social rented housing.
▪ We will fund the provision of short-term rented housing to reduce the use of bed and breakfast accommodation.
property
▪ Are you in rented property so feel you just have to put up with what you have?
▪ Improvements to rented property may raise rents to the detriment of the producers as opposed to the landowners.
▪ They first rented property before buying Bellehatch Park.
▪ The condition of rented property would be improved.
sector
▪ Figure 8.2 shows that the decline of the private rented sector and the growth of owner-occupation have been long-term phenomena.
▪ We have lost 2 million homes from the rented sector.
▪ So we are determined to encourage a strong private rented sector while continuing to safeguard the rights of existing regulated tenants.
▪ These two emerging types of household have traditionally sought their housing in the rented sector, both public and private.
▪ The private rented sector has declined considerably throughout the century.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Are you in rented property so feel you just have to put up with what you have?
▪ Figure 8.2 shows that the decline of the private rented sector and the growth of owner-occupation have been long-term phenomena.
▪ He and wife Diane have luxury homes in both countries as well as a rented penthouse in Lausanne.
▪ Many are trapped in the inner cores because of the unavailability of rented housing beyond the cities.
▪ Those in public and privately rented housing do not obtain the same sense of personal identity.
▪ We arrived at Herbert Pocket's rented rooms.
▪ Work started on a new base close to our rented unit in Watford.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rented

Rent \Rent\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rented; p. pr. & vb. n. Renting.] [F. renter. See Rent, n.]

  1. To grant the possession and enjoyment of, for a rent; to lease; as, the owwner of an estate or house rents it.

  2. To take and hold under an agreement to pay rent; as, the tennant rents an estate of the owner.

Wiktionary
rented

vb. (en-past of: rent)

Usage examples of "rented".

A lodger alighting outside her rented accommodation in Newington Butts would draw attention to herself.

Half of the island is rented by a considerable farmer, for these parts.

In the summer of 1815, after a tour along the southern coast of Devonshire and a visit to Clifton, he rented a house on Bishopgate Heath, on the borders of Windsor Forest, where he enjoyed several months of comparative health and tranquil happiness.

It seemed every house at Phantom Lake had been rented months ago, and the ugly possibility that he might be stuck without his friends for another summer was starting to seem like an even uglier reality.

This house has never been rented before, and Rita says she has a dozen people who will snap it up in a second.

She made enough money to buy a ground-floor room on the Bergstraat, which she rented part-time to another prostitute.

Frankie rented was located in the rear of a frame house on Guardia Street.

Joe thought there was no food, either, that Marcelle Fayette was not a woman who would enjoy eating plain food in a rented room.

Marcelle was about to depart from her rented apartment in Kensington to reconnoitre the Mall, down which King George V and Queen Mary and the royal procession would drive on the way to the coronation on 22 June.

For this purpose, the rented room in the house in Toynbee Street was still being used.

Tubby that the upstairs rooms had been rented for six months by a lady who gave her name as Alexandra Smith and who paid the full amount in advance.

All the same, it was deadly dull spending a lovely Sunday sitting at the window of the rented room of the house in Toynbee Street.

Sir Hubert, suspecting that Henrietta had become a familiar figure to the students, had made her take up a daytime watch from the rented room.

Members of the cells rented residences, and purchased bomb-making materials and transport vehicles.

Finally, back in Amman from Boston, Hijazi gradually accumulated bomb-making materials, including sulfuric acid and 5,200 pounds of nitric acid, which were then stored in an enormous subbasement dug by the plotters over a period of two months underneath a rented house.