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rentnoun a long deep cutgetting her skirt caught on a nail resulted in a four-inch rent that she couldn't possibly repair gash, incision, laceration, rip, slash, slit, tear abrasion, score, scrape, scratchinjury, woundcrack, fracture, rupture, snag an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)peered through the rent in the old garden wall for a glimpse of her mysterious new neighbor breach, break, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rift, separation, void chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissurenotch, slit, slot, splitinterspace, poreabyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orificefracture, rupture, severance, sundering rentverbto give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic paymentwe rented the apartment to a college student for $500 a month to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sumwill need to rent a car while we're in Europe charter, engage, hire, lease sublease, subletcheck outarrange (for), bespeak, book, contract (for), order, reserve, sign up (for) v.hire, let, lease, rent, charter mean to engage or grant for use at a price.hire and let, strictly speaking, are complementary terms, hire implying the act of engaging or taking for use and let the granting of use.we hired a car for the summer decided to let the cottage to a young couple lease strictly implies a letting under the terms of a contract but is often applied to hiring on a lease.the diplomat leased an apartment for a year rent stresses the payment of money for the full use of property and may imply either hiring or letting.instead of buying a house, they decided to rent will not rent to families with children charter applies to the hiring or letting of a vehicle usually for exclusive use.charter a bus to go to the game in the 12th century |