Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: renting
IPA transcription: [ɹ'ɛntɪŋ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: rental, renting
    Meaning: the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car)
Usage examples
  • THE RENTING CONTRACT
  • I am talking of renting a house next year, and Liddy says to be sure there is no ghost.
  • Such instances were numerous in the Middle Ages in the renting of land, and still are found in many countries.
  • Sewing-machines, boats, guns, tents, and even diamond engagement rings, yield their joys under the renting contract.
  • On the other hand, the tenant under the renting contract has little motive for improvement, and many occasions for discontent.
  • In many cases it is necessary, therefore, to follow the form of the renting contract in order to determine the net yield of indirect goods.
  • People frequently hesitate between the renting and the purchase of a piano, and in some cases renting is the more convenient and desirable way of securing its use.
  • In the Middle Ages the renting contract was the dominant form, but it has been progressively displaced by loans in the money form, and its importance is still declining.
  • Thus, in the Middle Ages, it was all but universal to look upon most indirect agents as exchangeable only under the renting contract, as subject to renting but not to complete transfer and sale.
  • According to this explanation the essential and primary difference between renting wealth and borrowing money at interest is not in the kind of wealth whose use is thus temporarily transferred, but in the nature of the contract.