Thesaurus results for RENTS

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noun

plural of rent

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

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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

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rents

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verb

present tense third-person singular of rent

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

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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

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Despite years of rising rents, Los Angeles County still has hundreds of thousands of affordable apartments. — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026 Cancio also believes rising rents are to blame for the struggling businesses on Miracle Mile and the rest of the Gables commercial district. — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026 Open systems surrender some rents at the core while creating larger markets for applications, integration and services. — Keyu Jin, Time, 23 Oct. 2026 Floor plans include studios and one-bedrooms, with a range of rents across floor plans. — Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2026 More housing, built by the private sector, is the best way to reduce rents. — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2026 In the Portuguese capital of Lisbon, meanwhile, protests set up a tent camp in Rossio Square in the heart of the city demanding government action to address rising rents and property prices. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 But extracting rents is much easier than inventing new things. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026 Spain this month experienced broad protests against high rents and a lack of housing, which prompted the government to call a snap election. — Reuters, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2026

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The National Trust rents out a charming stone cottage called 89 Church Lawn that sleeps seven and sits at the entrance to the 2,650-acre estate. — Nicholas Derenzo, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Oct. 2026 His employer rents out the robots for events such as OpenAI’s conference. — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Dan Pfoltzer, a 75-year-old school bus driver who rents a small home in Nassau, New York, has been warily watching oil heat prices for months. — Tami Luhby, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026 According to Page Six, Earle rents a luxury two-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles. — India Roby, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026 Equinix, by contrast, rents out space in its facilities to customers of all shapes and sizes that can run servers on a variety of compute platforms, from Nvidia to AMD. — Isabel O'Brien,katie Tarasov, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026 The state now rents those beds to ICE for $291 per detainee per day. — Ella Siegrist, The Conversation, 28 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

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Noun

For the Paris premiere of The Odyssey on July 8, Zendaya wore the same lace jacket over a sheer skirt with dramatic slits on the sides.

— Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2026
Plus, the side slits are practically made for showing off a pair of tall boots this fall.

— Brittany VanDerBill, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Sep. 2026

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But Rodrigues believes technology can augment traditional teaching methods by examining how a student solves an algebra problem or structures a piece of writing and identifying learning gaps.

— Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
Companies that close those gaps will move faster than those chasing every new tool.

— Radoslav Nedelchev, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of gaps

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The company builds or leases data centers and sells computing capacity to hyperscalers and AI labs.

— Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2026
The company manages and leases 25 million square feet of space, ranging from large urban mixed-use destinations to lifestyle, community and open-air centers, either built from the ground up or purchased.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of leases

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This becomes especially important when a business enters another state, hires employees in a new jurisdiction, changes its legal structure or begins working with international customers and suppliers.

— Prasanna Kumar, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026
GoCardless hires graduates from any discipline but still encourages them to qualify as accountants and pays for the exams.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of hires

Noun

Second-round leader Haeran Ryu, who birdied her last three holes, still led the tournament by four strokes after a 4-under 68 and a three-round total of 17-under 199.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Gaps where electrons can sit, called holes, can also induce superconductivity at not-so-cold temperatures, just in a slightly different way.

— Sven Badoux, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of holes

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Osteoporotic fractures are responsible for more hospitalizations than heart attacks, strokes, and breast cancer combined, at $400,000 per hip fracture patient per year in care costs.

— Geri Stengel, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Upon arriving at the hospital, doctors determined that the colorful bird — belonging to the same family as crows and jays — had left quite a bit of damage, including multiple fractures in Montalva's left cheekbone and a rare fracture of the hyoid bone in her neck.

— Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2025

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