| 单词 | rent |
| 释义 | rent rent // noun, verb
■ noun [U,C]
GROUND RENT, PEPPERCORN RENT
1 an amount of money that you pay regularly so that you can use a property, etc: Office rents in London fell by 15%. The landlord has put the rent up again. Her company has saved at least €240 000 in rent. ⇨ HIRE noun
a fair/high/low rent ◆ to charge/pay rent ◆ to fall behind with/owe rent
2 (especially AmE) = RENTAL (1)
IDIOMS
for rent (especially AmE) (especially on printed signs) available to rent: offices and warehouses for rent
■ verb
1 [+ obj or no obj] to regularly pay money to sb so that you can use sth that they own, such as a property, a machine, etc: rented accommodation She rents office space from a letting agency.
2 [+ obj] rent sth (out) (to sb) to allow sb to use sth that you own in exchange for payment: They rent office space to an IT company. She wants to rent out the top floor of the building. The company specializes in the renting of industrial machinery.
3 [+ obj] (especially AmE) to pay money to sb so that you can use sth for a short period of time: We rented a car at the airport. Consumers spent $3.7 billion on renting DVDs.
4 [no obj] (AmE) to be available for sb to use if they pay a particular amount of money: The apartment rents for $600 a month.
renter noun [C]: a renter of industrial equipment It's a renter's market (= rents are cheap at the moment). ⇨ HIRE, LEASE, LET |
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