rack-renting

verb

present participle of rack-rent
as in renting

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  1. renting
  2. hiring
  3. letting
  4. leasing
Verb
  • Three days before that, Microsoft released its first in-house cybersecurity model, a 5-billion-active-parameter specialist called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, built because renting general frontier models for defense work was no longer good enough.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • That includes, for example, renting out vehicles used to work on power lines or water trucks used for infrastructure projects.
    — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of renting
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  • The Bruins announced the hiring Monday of the 35-year-old Carr, who is volunteering in his first major coaching role.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • McDonnell seemed to prize family connections over real-world experience, hiring her nephews to serve as directors and executive producers on various series.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2026
Definition of hiring
Verb
  • An apologetic statement this week and commitment to not letting history repeat itself has, though, done little to placate the intensifying scrutiny of his leadership.
    — Aleks Klosok, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The communicators interviewed for this story were much warier of letting AI write public-facing material than of using it behind the scenes for research or other tasks.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of letting
Verb
  • And the railroad that’s leasing the bridge along with miles of track in Middletown said that upgrading the bridge would improve the chances of getting more industrial customers.
    — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Sony Pictures and Alamo Drafthouse Cinema are leasing the long-empty theater and plan to reopen it in 2028.
    — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of leasing
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