rented

past tense of rent
1
as in leased
to give the possession and use of (something) in return for periodic payment we rented the apartment to a college student for $500 a month

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as in hired
to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum will need to rent a car while we're in Europe

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Recent Examples of rented For more than 20 years, the touring musician rented an apartment in Lower Manhattan but owned his vacation home in Vail, Colorado. Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 21 Sep. 2026 The couple rented the apartment in 1980 after Farmer saw a listing in the Village Voice. Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 19 Sep. 2026 Kremlev reportedly rented the ultra-private islands for the weekend of festivities and paid for the fireworks show, costs that reached hundreds of thousands of dollars. Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026 Coastal Land & Livestock returned in early June with six hundred sheep, rented from Kaos Sheep Outfit. Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2026 Ball and Jackson failed to pay rent for Newton’s old uptown apartment, which is now owned and rented out by Agape Property Management Group LLC. Julia Coin, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2026 The Sunday reception was held a roughly 10-minute boat ride away on a neighboring private island, rented out by Kremlev. Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 15 Sep. 2026 Why Proxy Networks Are Different While proxy structure is also rented from third-party providers and serves as core infrastructure for data tasks, the resemblance is superficial at scale. Mindaugas Čaplinskas, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026 The Rams rented a double-decker Qantas jet with beds for all 53 players. Matt Barrows, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rented
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  • The land for both projects is owned by the university and is being leased to the developers for 99 years.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • The opening will be staged rather than fully leased on Day One, and Khoory expects the mix to evolve.
    Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • The Colombian military veterans had been hired as security contractors by the Doral-area firm Counter Terrorist Unit and its affiliate, Counter Terrorist Unit Federal Academy, collectively known as CTU.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
  • Commissioners hired Sean Newton as Downs’ replacement in March but fired him just five months later in a 3-2 vote.
    Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 22 Sep. 2026

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“Rented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rented. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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