rack-rented

verb

past tense of rack-rent
as in rented

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  1. rented
  2. hired
  3. leased
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  • Fifth Avenue duplex The actor, along with her then-boyfriend, Raffaello Follieri, rented a $37,000-a-month five-bedroom duplex in Midtown Manhattan’s Olympic Tower in the mid-2000s.
    — Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 16 July 2026
  • Kansas City rented more than 200 buses for its transportation system and counted more than 215,000 ConnectKC riders, including 145,000 who used the service to the stadium.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
Definition of rented
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  • Also Monday, Michigan hired Brown coach Mike Martin as an assistant to run the Wolverines offense.
    — Tobias Bass, New York Times, 14 July 2026
  • When Gaspard was hired as political director on Obama’s presidential campaign, Michelle Obama was in need of some staff of her own.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
Definition of hired
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  • But many forests overlay valuable minerals and parcels can be leased by private companies for the extraction of nonrenewable resources such as oil, gas and coal.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 July 2026
  • The tech company leased roughly 501,300 square feet during the first week of July in a business hub known as Cochrane Technology Center, several sources with knowledge of the rental transaction told this news organization.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 13 July 2026
Definition of leased
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