Synonyms of rents

rents 1 of 2

noun

plural of rent

1

as in slits

a long deep cut

getting her skirt caught on a nail resulted in a four-inch rent that she couldn't possibly repair

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slits
• tears
• fractures
• scratches
• slashes
• injuries
• rips
• lacerations
• scores
• incisions
• gashes
• wounds
• scrapes
• abrasions
• cracks
• snags
• ruptures

2

as in gaps

an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)

peered through the rent in the old garden wall for a glimpse of her mysterious new neighbor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• gaps
• holes
• crevices
• openings
• intervals
• cracks
• breaches
• discontinuities
• fissures
• breaks
• rifts
• voids
• interstices
• slits
• separations
• slots
• splits
• clefts
• hiatuses
• fractures
• crannies
• pores
• gulfs
• apertures
• cavities
• notches
• chinks
• interspaces
• orifices
• chasms
• ruptures
• severances
• gapes
• abysses

rents

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of rent

1

as in leases

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• leases
• hires
• lets
• sublets
• charters
• subleases
• lodges
• engages
• rack-rents

2

as in hires

to take or get the temporary use of (something) for a set sum

will need to rent a car while we're in Europe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hires
• leases
• charters
• engages
• sublets
• subleases
• orders
• books
• reserves
• arranges (for)
• contracts (for)
• checks out
• signs up (for)
• bespeaks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of rents

Noun

In Manhattan, a household would need to earn about $199,800 a year to avoid being considered rent-burdened based on StreetEasy’s median rents for July 2026. — Samantha Delouya, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

Supposedly scheming to raise rents in order to raise broker fees often pegged to rent prices, Compass went to war with Zillow, the most popular free real estate platform that never charges broker fees. — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026

The federal assistance helps subsidize rents for low-income tenants. — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026

The two wanted to stay put in Cherry Creek, the city’s hottest office market, where space is tight, and rents are high. — Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026

San Francisco, in contrast, is seeing the gap narrow as the massive influx of investment and newcomers tied to the artificial intelligence boom has been ratcheting up rents. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2026

For the Greenwich project, 27 apartments would have to be priced for people earning no more than 60% of the area’s median income, and rents for another 27 would be capped at prices affordable to people earning up to 80%. — Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 19 Aug. 2026

This creates a window for owners to acquire at a reset basis, reposition assets and strengthen tenant retention before tightening becomes fully visible in rents. — Tony Julianelle, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

As rents spike, increasing costs can drive away the usual clientele of botánicas, said Edwin Aponte, professor of religion and culture at Drew University in New Jersey. — Delia Sauer, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026

Verb

However, CoreWeave, which buys and rents out graphics processors from Nvidia and other chipmakers, hiked prices across its inventory by 25% in July to soften the impact of rising GPU costs on its margins, per Ramnani. — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2026

For example, letting a distant family member stay at a second home without formal documentation, or if someone owns one or more properties and rents them out, but the tenants don’t have documentation that the unit is their primary residence. — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026

Modern Apothecary now rents that space to local vendors or community members to host arts and crafts classes, botanical classes, poetry nights and other things. — Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2026

Red Door Stay also rents four traditional cabins, some sleeping up to 16 guests. — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 9 Aug. 2026

Boat rentals are available at both Village Motorsports (which also rents snowmobiles in the winter) and Lake Pleasant Marine. — Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026

For operators, marketers and investors, the answer determines whether a brand earns trust or simply rents attention for a season. — Peter Su, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

The only explanation the campaign provided about the jet’s activity was to say most of the flights in recent months have been handled through a third-party charter company that rents the plane out to travelers with Sarnecki’s permission. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

Surrounded by strangers Lardon lives on the same floor where former board member Anna Jesic rents an Airbnb. — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026